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HOUSE. OF COURSE WE WANT TO LET CONDUCT THIS IN NO WAY THAT EVERYBODY WILL BE A WILL TO ENJOY. AT THE END OF THE AUTHORS PRESENTING WE WILL HAVE A...
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GREAT TO HAVE YOU HERE IN THIS WONDERFUL CITY. THE MAGIC CITY OF MIAMI. WELCOME TO MIAMI BUT FAIR INTERNATIONAL AND MIAMI GAVE COLLEGE. WITHOUT FURTHER...
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AFTERNOON. ONE OF THE LAST PIECES CHRISTOPHER HICHENS COMPLETED WAS A REVIEW OF A BIOGRAPHY. THE UNAPOLOGETIC ATHEIST HAD MUCH IN COMMON WITH THE CHRISTIAN...
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AFTERNOON. THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING. AMERICANS ARE LIKE THE U.S. MAIL , NOT RAIN, SNOW, GLOOM OF NIGHT CAN PREVENT THESE COURIERS FROM THE SWIFT COMPLETION...
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BUILDING CUT LOOKS WERE PART OF IT. AND THE ARGUMENT WITH HIMSELF. HE WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO REFINE HIS ARGUMENTS BY ARGUING WITH OTHERS. THAT'S TRUE....
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TIME IN WASHINGTON WHILE HE WAS COLLECTING. AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE, I WAS EXTREMELY ANXIOUS ABOUT INTRODUCING MYSELF. AND FOR ALL THE PUPPET PUGILISTIC...
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MANNERED. BEAUTIFUL MANNERS. IT WAS A REMINDER THAT IN MANNERS BEGINS MORALITY. IT'S NOT NOTHING, MANNERS. IT'S NOT A LAYER. THE BEGINNING OF ACTUALLY...
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DELIVER IT. HE WAS ABRASIVE OR ARGUMENTATIVE OR EVEN SOMEWHAT CRUEL IN HIS REPORT LOST. HE MEANT TO DO IT. >> YEAH, BUT IT WAS A
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HABIT OF THIS TO SAY SOMETHING MADE PEOPLE JOLT BACK. ANOTHER STORY THAT I LIKE VERY MUCH, I WAS PLAYING TENNIS WITH ROBERT J. LIPTON, THE NAZI DOCTOR....
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A WHILE @BOOKTV AWAY. HE WISHED EVERYONE WELL. THE LEAST COMPETITIVE, MOST GENEROUS PERSON REALLY HAVE EVER MET. I THINK HE WOULD REALLY WALLOW ...
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TIME TRAVELING TOGETHER FOR THE VARIOUS BOOKS THAT WE WERE ABLE TO WORK ON. HE SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON THE ROAD WITH SOMEBODY. THERE IS A LOT OF DOWN...
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HARD TO UP BELIEVE, THAT'S BECAUSE HE CARED. >> HE COULD NOT
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GET HERE AND AIRPORT BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE PERSON WOULD STOP TO SAY HELLO OR TO ASK FOR AN AUTOGRAPH. HE WOULD STOP BUT HE WAS DOING AND LET THEM IN...
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YOU THINK YOU WOULD THINK OF THIS LOVE FEST WE ARE PRESENTING SO FAR? >> ANY KIND OF
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INTERACTION. HE CAME TO BE QUITE ADDICTED TO IT. WALKING TO A CINEMA. IT WAS OUR HABIT. REDUCED. AND I SAID TO HIM AS WE WERE WALKING, NO ONE HAS...
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2004. >> BARELY. I CAN SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON THAT. >> BUT THAT WAS HIS
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POSITION. >> BUT ALSO, I MEAN, IF YOU
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WANT TO GET INTO IT. >> ALL
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I'M SAYING -- >> BECAUSE OF MAKING
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A DIFFERENT POINT. >> I
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AM. THIS SORT OF -- HE GOES, AND THEN WHAT HE LOVES, IS JUSTIFYING IT, EX POST FACTO. AND HE, YOU KNOW, THE ONE ON EARTH WANTED TO DEBATE HIM ON ANY...
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KAPLAN. AND HE REMEMBERED IN A VAN WE DID IN MIAMI. 1,000 PEOPLE. SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN THERE. CHRISTOPHER WAS NOT IN DEBATE WITH ONE...
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| 00:22:03 |
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OUT THAT HE SHOULD HAVE HAD, HE WOULD PROBABLY LIVE LONGER IF HE HAD THE CONSTITUTION. ALTHOUGH ABOUT HIS UNTIMELY DEATH I'LL SAY THAT HE DIED AT THE...
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BIT. EXCEPT YOU THINK, WELL, WHAT IF HE HAD KEPT BARELY SLEEPING AND LIVED TO 90. >> I
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KNOW. HE WOULD METAPHORICALLY DRINK YOU UNDER THE TABLE. AND THEN WILL USE STAGGERED OFF AND SMASHED HER HEAD OPEN ON THE BATHROOM FLOOR AND GOT INTO...
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MAKING AND LEGEND MAKING WITH CERTAIN KINDS OF WRITERS, LIKE CHRISTOPHER. THE PROBLEM IS THAT EVERYTHING YOU HEAR IS ONLY HALF AS FAST AND AS GOOD AS...
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| 00:24:19 |
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PEOPLE. AND IS BEING -- SOME AMATEUR PSYCHOLOGIST THAT THEY HAD PRESSURE ON THE CORTEX, THESE PEOPLE. ELOQUENCES PRESSING DOWN ON THEM THEY HAVE TO...
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| 00:25:07 |
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HE WOULD DELIVER A MANUSCRIPT, HIS ESSAYS AS WELL, VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS, SORT OF OBJECTIVE ABOUT IT. HE WOULD TURN IN HIS PIECE AND MIGHT BE ONE ARE...
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BUT THEY SAY WE NEED TO CUT A THOUSAND WORDS FOR ADS ARE PERFUME OR WHENEVER IT MIGHT BE. HE WOULD SAY OKAY AND FIND A THOUSAND WORDS AND GET RID OF...
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BEFORE. THERE WAS THIS TIME WERE YOU AND CHRISTOPHER, THESE PIECES WERE BEING COLLECTED FOR THE PAST AND HER 12 YEARS. .. HE WOULD WRITE ABOUT STARLESS...
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SHOULD NOT BE MORBID BUT WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT HIS COURAGE AND THE FACT THAT HIS GOOD MANNERS, HIS SINCERE GOOD MANNERS -- YOU WOULD BE SITTING AT...
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| 00:28:43 |
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THERE WAS A WOMAN BEING ROUGHED UP IN FRONT OF OUR APARTMENT AND HE RAN DOWN AND RAN OUT AND SAVED HER. HE WASN'T DOING IT TO SHOW OFF OR TO PROVE...
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COURAGE THAT ALLOWED CHRISTOPHER TO WRITE SO CANDIDLY ABOUT HIS OWN ORDEAL OVER THOSE 18 MONTHS AND YOU HAVE SPOKEN AND MAYBE YOU WANT TO SPEAK A...
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| 00:29:22 |
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ABOUT IT, YOU KNOW. THERE ARE TWO ASPECTS OF IT. ONE HE WENT TO MANY MANY DANGEROUS ZONES OVER THE COURSE OF HIS JOURNALISTIC CAREER AND HAD A NUMBER...
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HAD HIS WIT AND SOMETIMES NEEDED IT TO GET OUT OF, HIS BRILLIANCE TO GET OUT OF DIFFICULT SITUATIONS. A COUPLE OF MONTHS AFTER SEPTEMBER 11 HE WAS IN...
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HIS ILLNESS, WHAT IS STRIKING ABOUT MORTALITY, MANY PEOPLE HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT ILLNESS AND DEATH AND DYING, BUT THERE IS SOMETHING, THERE IS NOTHING IN...
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WAS WRITING IT, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THIS BOOK DOESN'T HAVE A LOGICAL AND. HE WAS GOING TO WRITE A DIFFERENT BOOK WITH A DIFFERENT ENDING. HE ALWAYS THOUGHT...
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| 00:36:12 |
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NO. ONE OF HIS FAVORITE, JUST TIME FILLING KIND OF TAGS WAS, WHAT COULD BE MORE AGREEABLE? AND WHO COULD BE MORE AGREEABLE. THE BEST COMPANY ON EARTH...
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DEFINITELY. I SEE NO NEED FOR MORTALITY IS ONE OF MY ARGUMENTS. YOU HAD TOLD ME THAT AND I HAD THAT EXPERIENCE AND THEY I ALSO HAD THE KIND OF RETROSPECTIVE...
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FOR QUESTIONS? >>
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SURE. DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION OR TWO? >> NO, I WANT TO OPEN UP
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TO THESE PEOPLE. IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION PLEASE GO TO THE MIC. GO AHEAD. >> YES,
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I WAS ALWAYS QUITE GRATEFUL TO HIM FOR GOING AFTER -- LIKE YOU DID. BUT HIS NEED TO BE CONTRARY, TO BE THE BAD BOY SEEMED TO ME TO HAVE OVERRIDDEN HIS...
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WAS -- HE NEVER WAS CONTRARY JUST SO THAT HE COULD CONTINUE THIS IMAGE THAT YOU SUGGEST IS A BAD BOY ACTUALLY. HE WAS AT THE OXFORD UNION AND HE WOULD...
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| 00:40:21 |
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A FLAIR FOR SHOWMANSHIP AND IT WASN'T LOST ON HIM WITH HIS REPUTATION. >> HE
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DID SAY, THE THOUGHT OF PREVENTIVE WAR IS -- THE THOUGHT OF PREEMPTIVE WAR IS A -- OH YEAH, I DIDN'T REMEMBER THAT ONE. BUT AS FOR KISSINGER, I DON'T...
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| 00:41:42 |
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HI. I WAS WONDERING FOR EACH OF YOU IF YOU COULD, IF YOU COULD PICK OUT A COMMON THREAT THROUGHOUT HIS BODY OF WORK, HE VERY MUCH -- MY IMPRESSION...
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| 00:42:11 |
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WE WERE ASKED THIS BY CHARLIE RHODES AND I THOUGHT HE WAS BASICALLY A STREET FIGHTING -- AND I THINK HE WAS SORT OF LEFTY PASSION THAT LED HIM TO ENDORSE...
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| 00:44:24 |
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PEOPLE BELIEVED OF ALL HIS TALENTS, HIS ORATORY TALENTS WERE PERHAPS HIS FINEST AND HE HAD BEEN REFERRED TO AS PERHAPS THE GREATEST ORATOR OF OUR...
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QUESTION? WHAT YOU THINK YOU NEVER TRIED TO WRITE FICTION? >> I OFTEN TALK
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TO MY NOVELIST FRIENDS ALL OF WHOM WERE RIVETED BY -- AND HE CERTAINLY HAD, HE HAD THE PHRASE MAKING ABILITY. HE COULD DREAM HIMSELF INTO ANOTHER PERSON...
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SEE THE GIFT THAT WOULD NATURALLY LEND ITSELF TOWARDS NARRATIVE WRITING AND IN THE FIRST THREE CHAPTERS OF HIS 22 IN PARTICULAR WHERE HE WRITES ABOUT...
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WROTE A COUPLE OF SCRIPTS TOGETHER AND HE DIDN'T LIKE DOING THAT ALL THAT MUCH. BUT HE WAS VERY INVENTIVE AND HIS DIALOGUE WAS EXTRAORDINARY. I THINK...
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NOTHING HAPPEN. IT WAS ALWAYS A POSSIBILITY THAT WHAT HE WROTE, HIS RHETORIC, HIS ORATORICAL BRILLIANCE WOULD BRING ABOUT CHANGE. A NOVEL, SOMETHING THAT...
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ONE QUICK THING ON THE ISSUE OF THE COMMON THREAD THAT WILL RUN THROUGH THE WORK. THIS IDEA THAT LIBERTY WAS RUN STRAIGHT THROUGH BUT IT WASN'T ONLY...
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| 00:47:23 |
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HE LOVE THE BILL OF RIGHTS AND THAT IS WHY HE BECAME AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. >> GOOD
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AFTERNOON. I AM A LOCAL RESIDENT AND I WAS -- AT THE TEMPLE ISRAEL DEBATE. I AM AN ATTORNEY BUT I HAVE NEVER EVER SEEN SUCH BLAZING RHETORICAL SKILLS....
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THAT. [LAUGHTER] >> IN I COULDN'T BELIEVE THAT
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HE WAS ABLE TO MAINTAIN HIS TRAIN OF THOUGHT. I CERTAINLY COULDN'T HAVE. I JUST CAN'T GET NO -- SO I WAS JUST READING, THIS IS JUST A COMMENT. I WAS...
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HE WAS ALMOST NEVER DRUNK. SOMETIMES AT 3:00 IN THE MORNING BUT ALMOST NEVER. RECALIBRATED AND HE HAD IT FREE LUNCH DRINK AND SOME WINE WITH LUNCH....
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AFTER ONE OF HIS MORE CONTROVERSIAL DECISIONS WHICH IS TO OUST SID BLUMENTHAL AND I RANG HIM UP. HE WAS GETTING A LOT OF PAIN FOR THAT AND I RANG HIM...
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TWO OR THREE TIMES THAT NIGHT IN 25 YEARS. >> I DON'T WANT
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TO COMMENT ABOUT THESE RHETORICAL SKILLS, HE IS VERY CHURCHILLIAN. >> I THINK BETTER THAN
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THAT. SEE WHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO THIS PERSON? >> I AM AND THOUGHT HE HAD
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MANY THINGS IN COMMON WITH CHURCHILL INCLUDING COURAGE. I INVERTED THAT NABOKOV IN THING. I WILL WRITE LIKE A DISTINGUISHED MAN OF LETTERS AND I TALK...
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HIM. HE WAS ONE OF MY HEROES. >> THANK YOU VERY
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MUCH. [APPLAUSE] >> THANK YOU TO OUR
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AUTHORS AND THE AUTOGRAPHING AREA IS TO THE RIGHT OF THE ELEVATORS AS YOU LEAVE THIS ROOM. [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] [INAUDIBLE...
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BookTV'S LIVE COVERAGE OF THE MIAMI BOOK FAIR INTERNATIONAL. YOU WERE JUST WATCHING CAROL BLUE, CARY GOLDSTEIN AND MARTIN AMIS TALKING ABOUT THEIR...
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