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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

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Harold Pinter
Age: 78 †
Born: 1930
Born: October 10
Died: 2008
Died: December 24
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Be careful how you talk about God. He's the only God we have. If you let him go he won't come back. He won't even look back over his shoulder. And then what will you do?
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No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion.
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Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
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I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.
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