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I Don't Think It Is Given To Any Of Us To Be Impertinent To Great Religions With Impunity.

Survival...is An Infinite Capacity For Suspicion.

It's Part Of A Writer's Profession, As It's Part Of A Spy's Profession, To Prey On The Community To Which He's Attached, To Take Away Information - Often In Secret - And To Translate That Into Intelligence For His Masters, Whether It's His Readership Or His Spy Masters. And I Think That Both Professions Are Perhaps Rather Lonely.

To Possess Another Language, Charlemagne Tells Us, Is To Possess Another Soul. German Is Such A Language. Once You Have It In Your Head, You Can Go There Anytime, You Can Close The Door, You Have A Refuge.

Ideologies Have No Heart Of Their Own. They're The Whores And Angels Of Our Striving Selves.