Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
A. N. WilsonI'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.
A. N. WilsonIt is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
A. N. WilsonWe tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.
A. N. WilsonIt 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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