American - Author | April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011
The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.
Christopher Hitchens
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Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'
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To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
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Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.
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I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
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Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.
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I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.
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I vote and I do jury duty.
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I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.
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I was becoming post-ideological.
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I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
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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.
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