"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."
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"I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.“
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"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights."
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