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Andrew Norman Wilson (born 1950) is an English writer and newspaper columnist known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular history. He is an occasional columnist for the Daily Mail and a former columnist for the London Evening Standard. He has been an occasional contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The Spectator and The Observer.

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History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

Doe, Grievance, Grievances, History, Landmines, Like

I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.

Ask, Eastbourne, Replied, Self, Towns, Upper Class

In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.

General, Hitler, Newspapers, Popular, View, Views

A busybody's work is never done.

Busybodies, Done, Work

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.

Clock, Irony, Joy, People, Sadness

Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

Bohr, Einstein, Physics, Theory, World

It 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.

Bulk, Jobs, Men, Responsibility, True, Woman

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

Human, Human Love, Humans, Love, Mediated, Truth

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

British History, History, Judging, Things, Victorian

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

Birthday, Exercise, Grows, Lives, School

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

Angel, Bank, Believe, Liars, Truth, Whole

When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.

Christian, Down, Fear, Jesus, Perfectly, Sunday

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.

Eerie, Kings, Perspective, Queens, Tourists

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

Class, People, Production, Revolutionary, Water, Whole

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

College, Evokes, Memories, Regret, Regrets

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

Circles, Education, Intellectual, Opinionated, Unpopularity

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

Awakening, Hunger, Insatiable Hunger, Irrational, Logic, Math

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

Anti Semitism, Common, Extremely

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

Happy, People, Regime, Regimes, Socialists, Thinking

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

Children, Dictatorship, Easily, Lunatics, Remarkable

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