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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.
- Counterparts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020