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Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
Tony Judt
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Tony Judt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 2
Died: 2010
Died: August 6
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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London
England
Tony Robert Judt
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Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.
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At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.
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We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
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I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.
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Israel today is bad for the Jews.
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The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people.
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Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.
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I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.
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Social democracy does not represent an ideal future it does not even represent the ideal past.
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Reality is a powerful solvent.
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But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.
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History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.
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History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it.
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We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.
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If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have
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