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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens

American Author

Born: Apr 13, 1949

Died: Dec 15, 2011

Good Life Me People Think You

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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. Christopher Hitchens

I don't consider myself to be that credulous. Christopher Hitchens

Myself Consider Credulous

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. Christopher Hitchens

Life My Life Tried Composing Write Read Sentences Much

I'm not a conservative of any kind. Christopher Hitchens

Conservative Kind Any

I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize. Christopher Hitchens

Difficult Am Proved Convert

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism. Christopher Hitchens

Mistake Evil Made Every Liberal Moral Hussein Absolutism He Saddam Saddam Hussein Knows How George George Bush Referred Leftist Regime Bush

The violence in the Bible is appalling. Christopher Hitchens

Bible Appalling Violence

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence. Christopher Hitchens

Me Seemed Point Adult Talking Existence

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. Christopher Hitchens

Experience Anxiety Long Pain Long Periods Terminal Like Involves Periods Terror Endurance Warfare Illness Grave Stark Tedium

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time. Christopher Hitchens

Time You People Demanding Every Every Time Ten Ten Commandments Sure Always Hear Hear People Commandments Which Ask Works Displayed Set

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures. Christopher Hitchens

Rumors Citizens Forever Cures

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. Christopher Hitchens

Terrorism Impossible Demanding Tactic

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with. Christopher Hitchens

Best Change Socialism Political Impossible Become Think Evolve Come However Up Person Politically Disillusioned Much View Moment Ever Humans

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. Christopher Hitchens

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. Christopher Hitchens

Time You People Cancer Long Wish Realistic Live Too Other Statistics About Case Through Part Come Talk Terrible Because Wager Were Very May Dying Process Poor Certainty Many Awful Resigned

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. Christopher Hitchens

You Plant Will Build Before Expectation Damn Tree Hoping Outlive Fact House Knowing Well Make Sure How Die Done Human Just Children In Fact Want Dying Them Human Species Species

Ordinary morality is innate in my view. Christopher Hitchens

Morality Ordinary View Innate

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner. Christopher Hitchens

Think Write Self-Confident Fairly Manner

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. Christopher Hitchens

Work Conversation People Try Write Well Reader Talking Always Am Yes Trying Often Engage

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