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The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.
Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
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At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.
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If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.
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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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There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.
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As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like.
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A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society.
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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.
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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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The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.
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A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.
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Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
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I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.
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Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American someone who actually embodies all of those qualities.
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Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.
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I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.
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