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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Political Scientist
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Portsmouth
England
Christopher Eric Hitchens
Dying
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
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Ordinary morality is innate in my view.
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There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
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There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.
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What happens to the faith healer and the shaman when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries, administered without ceremonies or mystifications? Roughly the same thing as happens to the rainmaker when the climatologist turns up, or to the diviner from the heavens when schoolteachers get hold of elementary telescopes.
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You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.
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The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.
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The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
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There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.
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Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.
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The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.
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There either is a god or there is not there is a 'design' or not.
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The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.
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There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of little guy or silent majority rhetoric, and it is very often reached because of the emaciated, corrupted personalities of the demagogues themselves.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.
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The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
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I'm quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more immediate one than some believed - were I'm sure convinced that they were right on fact, I don't think they were making it up. So as to lying, I don't think it has been established that any lies were told.
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In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.
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