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" The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes. "

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

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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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" My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd. "

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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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" It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with. "

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" When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children. "

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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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" Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it. "

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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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" When Caroline Kennedy managed to say 'you know' more than 200 times in an interview with the New York 'Daily News,' and on 130 occasions while talking to 'The New York Times' during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator, she proved, among other things, that she was (a) middle-aged and (b) middle class. "

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" It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing. "

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" Chemotherapy isn't good for you. "

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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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" When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. "

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" I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it. "

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

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

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

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" I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. "

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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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" 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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" If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women. "

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" I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s. "

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