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It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.

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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing
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I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.
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There either is a god or there is not there is a 'design' or not.
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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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Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes.
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Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.
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It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
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In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.
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She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
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All this could be part of a plan. There is no way an atheist can prove it’s not. But it’s some plan, isn't it? With mass destruction, pitiless extermination, annihilation going on all the time. And all of this set in motion on a scale that’s absolutely beyond our imagination, in order that the pope can tell people not to jerk off.
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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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