I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can … - Simon Gray

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A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

Simon Gray

I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.

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Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

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In my experience, the worst thing you can do to an important problem is to discuss it.

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