"I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country."
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"Cheap booze is a false economy."
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"I vote and I do jury duty."
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"I think the materialist conception of history is valid."
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"I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner."
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"Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever."
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"Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth"
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"If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka ."
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"The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister."
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"I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?"
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"Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely."
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"People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve."
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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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"My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them."
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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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"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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"The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply."
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"A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society."
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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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"It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell on what page of the novel Paul Scott had reached for the bottle and thrown caution to the winds.)"
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