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" The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. "

Christopher Hitchens

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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 don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way. "

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" What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. "

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" Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables. "

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" I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny. "

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

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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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" 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 wanted to write. "

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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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" The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition. "

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" One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. "

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" The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal. "

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" The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home. "

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" Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. "

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" I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised. "

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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've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world. "

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" The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious. "

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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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" 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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" To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. "

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