97 Christopher Hitchens Quotes for You to Enjoy

Christopher Hitchens

American Author

Born: Apr 13, 1949

Died: Dec 15, 2011

Good Life Me People Think You

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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. Christopher Hitchens

You Privacy Mistake School Language Made Crushed Would Small Could Feel Know Make Sting Undoubtedly Yes Where Younger Much Really Etiquette Flick Lash Britain

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious. Christopher Hitchens

Unconscious Idea Being Keen

I vote and I do jury duty. Christopher Hitchens

Vote Duty Jury Jury Duty

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect. Christopher Hitchens

Small Joined Growing

I wanted to write. Christopher Hitchens

Write Wanted

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them. Christopher Hitchens

Life Happy Women My Life Driving Most Them

I still think like a Marxist in many ways. Christopher Hitchens

Think Ways Marxist Like Still Many

I think the materialist conception of history is valid. Christopher Hitchens

History Think Valid Conception Materialist

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country. Christopher Hitchens

Country Slightly Born Somehow Wrong Felt Always Been

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little. Christopher Hitchens

Travel Law Too Much Country Year Every Too Once Law And Order Taken Taken For Granted Make Sure Least Still Go Where Order Cannot Either Little Much Granted Things

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise. Christopher Hitchens

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd. Christopher Hitchens

Book People Wife Say Those Would Religious Seems Never Absurd Idea Opened Remote Dear Whole Whom Utterly

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument. Christopher Hitchens

Political Argument Think Other Side Say Able Case Could Put Well Without Least Person Accuracy Any Boasting Reasonable

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. Christopher Hitchens

Myself Age People Thought Face Think Say Says Would Looked Until Without Always George George Orwell Did After Which Flattering Younger Certain Certain Age Certainly Deserve