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What are you still hoping to finish?

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Tony Judt Historian and essayist
It could really have an impact if I get it right. Something that will get the next generation to see there is a way to think about politics that is not just the way we've been habituated to do it. I care about that and I think I can do it.

Recorded Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, 8 January 2010 source ↗

Christopher Hitchens Essayist, critic and journalist
There is an even longer shot that I do propose to attempt even though its likely efficacy lies at the outer limits of probability. I am going to try to have my entire DNA “sequenced,” along with the genome of my tumor. ... So perhaps I will be able to contribute a little bit to enlarging the knowledge that will help future generations.

Recorded Vanity Fair, 8 October 2010 source ↗

Jenny Diski Novelist and essayist
Dear God, not a bucket list? Really, there is nothing that I want to do before I die, except perhaps just lie back and enjoy the morphine, daydreaming my way to oblivion.

Recorded London Review of Books, 11 September 2014 source ↗

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