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If you can charm everyone it means you don't care about anyone in particular.
Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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Portsmouth
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Christopher Eric Hitchens
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To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
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The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.
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How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?
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You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?
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It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.
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Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all your life. Make your last days the best ones. People might suppose this was in poor taste.
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The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.
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At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.
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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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The noble title of dissident must be earned rather than claimed it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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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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A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society.
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Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.
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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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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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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
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Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'
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All of life is a wager
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Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
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