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I think that people's sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all possible.

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In his entire output, I can find only one piece of genuine unfairness: a thuggish attack on the poetry of WH Auden, whom he regarded as a dupe of the ...more

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The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent.

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Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn't present always. I mean, often what you're meetin...more

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[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the ...more

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1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East ...more

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I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring an end to Muslim rese...more

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Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forth—that I leave to others to decide ...more