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- Nov 07, 2020
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- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. 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.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.
- Notice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice.
- Gravely
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Nov 07, 2020
I was becoming post-ideological.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
- Idea
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
- Conservative
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- Nov 07, 2020