American - Author | April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011
Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.
Christopher Hitchens
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Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
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Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.
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Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.
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One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.
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I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.
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I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.
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It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.
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I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.
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I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
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I feel Anglo-American.
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Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
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