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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#deceiving #fear #i #i do #inordinate

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#dislike #feel #honest #i #intolerance

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 only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#elizabeth #elizabeth i #giving #had #her

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

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

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#early #entirely #good #influence #much

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#alone #being #dead #eerie #into

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