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I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.
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[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.
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Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some reason why it is mainly liberals who tend to say this, but the chief thing to note about the promise is that it is usually an empty one.
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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.
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Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
Christopher Hitchens
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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The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.
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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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The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity
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Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.
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If you say the economy, you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between the forces of production and the relations of production.
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We have millions and millions of North Korean children totally stunted in mind and body and will have to be dealt with at some point, who have been raised to believe that they live in a regime that is run by a god.
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The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous.
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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.
Christopher Hitchens
The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.
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There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.
Christopher Hitchens
There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.
Christopher Hitchens
I would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you're really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.
Christopher Hitchens
I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.
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