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

Christopher Hitchens

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" A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative. "

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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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" Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be. "

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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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" The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved. "

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" The violence in the Bible is appalling. "

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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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" 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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" Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!' "

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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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" 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 joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect. "

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