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• It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom…
• [F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon…
• I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I…
• Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they…
• Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor.…
• Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human…
• It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.
• Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

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