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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.

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If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

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A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

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I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

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One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

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The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

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I also found being called Sir rather silly.

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I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

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While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

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It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?

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I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you.

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I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.

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And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.

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I am much interested and honoured by what you tell me of C. S. Lewis.

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