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

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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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" A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me. "

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

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

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" If you can talk, you can write. "

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

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" The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation. "

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" Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. "

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" There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar. "

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" Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts. "

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" Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation. "

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" I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. "

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" Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain. "

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" You can only have one aim per debate. "

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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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" I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information. "

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

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

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" I still think like a Marxist in many ways. "

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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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" 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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" Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.' "

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" 'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. "

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