American - Author | April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011
The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.
Christopher Hitchens
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I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice.
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My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
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The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
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I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.
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I'm not a conservative of any kind.
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A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
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The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.
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I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'
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When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more.
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I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.
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I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.
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