It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.
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Zum Autor"In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement."
"In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust."
"I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated."
"The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?"
"What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime."
"I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor."