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" I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize. "

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

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" Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. "

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

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" You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way. "

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" When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. "

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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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