American - Author | April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011
I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.
Christopher Hitchens
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I wanted to write.
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I still think like a Marxist in many ways.
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I think the materialist conception of history is valid.
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Of course, I do everything for money.
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Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
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Ordinary morality is innate in my view.
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A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
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If you can talk, you can write.
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I'm terrified of losing my voice.
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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.
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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.
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