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" Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain. "

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" Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected. "

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" I'm crepuscular. "

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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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" 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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" Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice. "

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" Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday. "

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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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" When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time. "

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" I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice. "

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

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" Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. "

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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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" 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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" I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come. "

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" Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like. "

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

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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 like surprises. "

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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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" Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics. "

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" The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books. "

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

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" Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. "

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

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

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