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You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

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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I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.
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In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.
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The noble title of dissident must be earned rather than claimed it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
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(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.
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Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.
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My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
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I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.
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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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To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.
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Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.
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I don’t have a body, I am a body.
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As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.
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Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.
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The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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It was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least now the Iraqi people have a chance of controlling their own main resource, and it will be our task to ensure that the funding and revenue are transparent instead of opaque.
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I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
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Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!
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I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.
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