American - Author | April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
Christopher Hitchens
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Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.
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A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.
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The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.
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Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.
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You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.
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I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
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I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.
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Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
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I'm crepuscular.
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