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" Chemotherapy isn't good for you. "

Christopher Hitchens

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" I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. "

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" My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them. "

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" I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth. "

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" Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. "

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" Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be. "

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" I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s. "

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" I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. "

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" Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. "

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" Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible. "

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" A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular. "

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" High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. "

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" It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with. "

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" I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. "

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" Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties. "

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" The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home. "

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" One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue. "

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

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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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" 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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" Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive' spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of 'bonsai.' "

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