#us

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

When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#atheist #been #ear #father #friends

Because the living environment is what really sustains us. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#environment #living #really #sustains #us

I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#corner #dining #had #i #jane

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

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#another #argue #bell #both #clock

I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#first #i #i think #just #our