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

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" I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap. "

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" Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands. "

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

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" You can only have one aim per debate. "

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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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" 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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" I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do. "

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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 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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" 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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" 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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" I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living. "

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" I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated. "

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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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" And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home. "

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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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" Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible. "

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

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" In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker. "

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" I wanted to write. "

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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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" I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps. "

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