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Style is the image of character.


Edward Gibbon


#image #style

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.


A. N. Wilson


#computer #every #i #laptop #massage

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.


A. N. Wilson


#aged #any #brilliant #business #death

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.


A. N. Wilson


#dragon #george #giant #grammar #harry

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.


A. N. Wilson


#bodily #brain #brain power #complicated #days

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.


A. N. Wilson


#death #fear #large #me #never

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.


A. N. Wilson


#day #i #imagine #journalists #long

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.


A. N. Wilson


#awfully #cry #going #honey #howl

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.


A. N. Wilson


#any #asking #bad #bad thing #cheers

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.


A. N. Wilson


#becomes #began #complicated #ever #first






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