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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

~A. N. Wilson

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The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

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Topics: All Day Bedroom Big Breakfast Day Even Family Houses Like Live Lives Me Meet Need Never Philip Prince Queen Round Royal Royal Family Shared Spouse Together Walk You Your

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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Anything Anything Else Because Become Brilliant Doing Done Else First Got Hope Incapable Life Might People Research Still Suppose Today

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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

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The scribbler's life is never done.

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Topics: Done Life Never

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Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: About Across Been Came Child Glorious Happy Illustrations Laurence Mine Passion Play Queen Reading Since Victoria I Came

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It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.

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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

~A. N. Wilson

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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.

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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

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Topics: Admit Advice Am Bewildered Faith Followed Given Man Matter Moments Practice Return Shy Those Unbelief Will Wise Years Years Ago You Young Young Man I Am

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 27th, 1950

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