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As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, 'Some animals ar...more

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Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe mo...more

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I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.

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The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.

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Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority ...more

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So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been ...more

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Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.

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The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and truth in this count...more

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My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And any...more

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Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.

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You have to choose your future regrets.

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There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undec...more

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The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

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Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Th...more

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Cheap booze is a false economy.