American - Author | April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011
I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.
Christopher Hitchens
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I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.
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People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
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I'm not a sheep.
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There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.
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No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
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To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
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I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.
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The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.
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Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.
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Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive' spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of 'bonsai.'
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Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.
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