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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
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There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a tendency. I would say I was a supporter of Paul Wolfowitz.
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To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
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It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of Me Decade possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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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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I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated
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Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.
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All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.
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Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.
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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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I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.
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Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.
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The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.
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Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.
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The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process is very distinctly weighted against the asking of an intelligent question or the recording of a thoughtful answer.
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There either is a god or there is not there is a 'design' or not.
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I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.
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So there's nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn't really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it's the most nauseating spectacle.
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