American - Author | April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011
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.
Christopher Hitchens
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Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.
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I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.
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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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'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.
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In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.
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All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.
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I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.
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I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.
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Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.
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Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.
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When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.
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