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I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

Christopher Hitchens

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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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Portsmouth
England
Christopher Eric Hitchens
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We know that our life is essentially tragic. I'm absolutely not for handing over that very important department of our psyche to those who say, Why didn't you say so before? God has a plan for you in mind.
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There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.
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Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God's on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.
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A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or so I fondly imagine.
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I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do
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Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed. She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions.
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I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement.
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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.
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My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.
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It's normally agreed that the question 'How are you?' doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer.
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I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer.
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Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.
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My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.
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Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.
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And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.
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She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
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MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.
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How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?
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