"In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light."
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"What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime."
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"The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous."
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"A good liar must have a good memory."
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"That most risky and volatile of all things a self-pitying majority."
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"In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust."
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"Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock."
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"The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose."
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"To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist."
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"Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes."
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"How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?"
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"This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for?"
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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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"The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is."
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"The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes."
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"The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization."
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"I'm very happy by myself - I'm lucky in that way - if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it."
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"What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating."
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"In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization."
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"Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers."
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