“We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.”
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Famous A. N. Wilson Quotes
Source: Against religion
“The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.”
Source: Incline Our Hearts
“The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.”
“The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.”
“I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.”
“Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.”
“Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.”
“I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.”
“I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.”
“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”
Source: After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World
“We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.”
“I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.”
“In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.”