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"There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."

"Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason."

"Human reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way."

"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."

"Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being-not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement-not survival at any price, since there's only one price that pays for man's survival: reason."

"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason."
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"Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result."

"In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law."

"An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad."

"The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided."

"When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines."

"Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam."
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