- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm regarded outside New York University as a looney tunes leftie, self-hating Jewish communist; inside the university, I'm regarded as a typical, old-fashioned, white male liberal elitist. I like that. I'm on the edge of both; it makes me feel comfortable.
- Bad Stuff
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- Nov 07, 2020
History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.
- Illness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that if we think back to the period from F.D.R. through, let us say, Bush I, until the end of the Cold War, we lived through an artificial period in which American interests and European interests essentially dovetailed.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European future. We could still fall back into pre-Europe... and it worries me.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020