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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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" I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust. "

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

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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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" Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. "

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" I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second. "

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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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" 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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" To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?' "

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

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" Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. "

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" There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument. "

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" I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious. "

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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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" 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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" My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. "

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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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" 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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" I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. "

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" Ordinary morality is innate in my view. "

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" Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded. "

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

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

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" 'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. "

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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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" I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat. "

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" There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s. "

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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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