"Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years."

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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.

— Christopher Hitchens