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Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.

Christopher Hitchens

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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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Autobiographer
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Journalist
Literary Critic
Political Scientist
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Portsmouth
England
Christopher Eric Hitchens
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