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

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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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" 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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" The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone. "

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" Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence. "

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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 have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. "

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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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" I'm crepuscular. "

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" There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise. "

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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 used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators. "

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" You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed. "

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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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" 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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" 'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. "

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" I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? "

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

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" I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again. "

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" I think the materialist conception of history is valid. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned. "

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" I feel Anglo-American. "

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" My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist. "

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" George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism. "

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" Obscenity comes from grime. "

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

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