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Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

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Tony Judt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 2
Died: 2010
Died: August 6
Essayist
Historian
Non-Fiction Writer
Professor
Teacher
London
England
Tony Robert Judt
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Simply
Words
Make
Emote
Illness
Master
Subject
Masters

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We need to start talking about inequality again we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth.
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We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
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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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My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
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If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.
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After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.
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Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
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I don't much mind being expelled from communities.
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But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.
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If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
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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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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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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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Reality is a powerful solvent.
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The East European small countries have a sense of betrayal, of having been forgotten by Western leaders.
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I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.
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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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What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
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Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.
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History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.
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