"I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead."

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"What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful."

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"It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."

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"Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course."

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"The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster."

Georg Brandes, Danish Critic

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"The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention."

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"Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives."

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"I think the killers get far too much attention."

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"I think the aim - and certainly the aim of what I've tried to do since leaving - is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It's to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine."

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"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing."

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"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."

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"Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds."

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