Christopher Hitchens quotes - page 14

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country. (Christopher Hitchens)
I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny. View quote
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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. View quote
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The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious. View quote
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Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands. View quote
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The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition. View quote
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People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. View quote
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I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? View quote
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I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come. View quote
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My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd. View quote
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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. (Christopher Hitchens)
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. View quote
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The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned. View quote
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I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. View quote
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I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner. View quote
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Of course, I do everything for money. View quote
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Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. View quote
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Ordinary morality is innate in my view. View quote
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Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know. View quote
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I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it. View quote
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I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth. (Christopher Hitchens)
Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. View quote
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I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust. View quote
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I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. View quote
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I'm terrified of losing my voice. View quote
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