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My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.
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 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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Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the cynical and the corrupt.
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The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.
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I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.
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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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The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.
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If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.
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Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.
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