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I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.
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
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Christopher Eric Hitchens
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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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Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.
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Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.
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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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We know how to think. We know how to laugh. We know we're going to die, which gives us a lot to think about, and we have a need for, what I would call, the transcendent or the numinous or even the ecstatic that comes out in love and music, poetry, and landscape. I wouldn't trust anyone who didn't respond to things of that sort.
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Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.
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The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.
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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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There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.
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Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.
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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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You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?
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I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.
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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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