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

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" No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis. "

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

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" I vote and I do jury duty. "

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" When Caroline Kennedy managed to say 'you know' more than 200 times in an interview with the New York 'Daily News,' and on 130 occasions while talking to 'The New York Times' during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator, she proved, among other things, that she was (a) middle-aged and (b) middle class. "

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

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

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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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" It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. "

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" I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. "

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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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" When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting. "

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" Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation. "

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" I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. "

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" I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all. "

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" My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it. "

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" I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words. "

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" The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious. "

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" Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. "

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" For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them. "

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" If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument. "

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" I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much. "

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" I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised. "

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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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" One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has. "

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" The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition. "

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" Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake. "

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