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The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.
Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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I don’t have a body, I am a body.
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The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
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For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going.
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To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.
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In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.
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I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.
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Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
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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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