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" A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me. "

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" A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it. "

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" Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness. "

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" To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?' "

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" A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope. "

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" The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved. "

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" It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in. "

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" I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world. "

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" When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children. "

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" There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s. "

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" The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures. "

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" Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected. "

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" You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not? "

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" I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!' "

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" I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information. "

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" Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know. "

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" The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself. "

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" I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps. "

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" In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them. "

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" I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise. "

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" Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. "

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" Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics. "

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" I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country. "

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" Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain. "

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" One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. "

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" The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion. "

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" I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second. "

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" I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little. "

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" In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker. "

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