But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.
From Tony Judt
I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.
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.
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.
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.
Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
I think Bush was seen as someone who was disentangling America from the connections that it had with the outside world, that it found encumbering for domestic purposes.
I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.
I know exactly how and where I am going to die. The only question is when.
When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too.
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