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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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" I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor. "

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" I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated. "

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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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" It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. "

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" Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas. "

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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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" It doesn't take much to make me angry. "

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" The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation. "

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" I feel Anglo-American. "

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" Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.' "

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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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" 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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" Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt. "

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" Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers. "

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" The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal. "

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" The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. "

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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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" 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 think the materialist conception of history is valid. "

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" I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does. "

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

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" I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner. "

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" I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny. "

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" Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments. "

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

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" It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing. "

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" Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. "

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" People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. "

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" I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. "

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