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

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

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Consciousness, Fear Of Death

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

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Queens, Book, Writing

I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.

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Belief, Boring

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

A. N. Wilson
Men, Saint, Poet
"Tennyson's In Memoriam: a farewell to religious certainty" by A. N. Wilson, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2011.

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.

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Sadness, People, Joy

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

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Clever, People, Want

I had lost faith in biography.

A. N. Wilson
Biographies, Lost, Lost Faith
"I'm Mr Evil". Interview with Matt Seaton, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2003.

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.

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Jobs, Men, Marketing

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

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Common, Anti Semitism

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

A. N. Wilson
Writing, Shadow, Feels
"AN Wilson: 'Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow'". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

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History, Judging, British History
"The Victorians". Book by A. N. Wilson, 1970.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

A. N. Wilson
Radio, Thought Of The Day, Easy

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