What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
Christopher Hitchens Quotes
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.
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Birth: | 13th April, 1949 |
Death: | 15th December, 2011 |
Nationality: | American, British |
Profession: | Author, Critic, Essayist, Journalist, Screenwriter |
Christopher Eric Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. He was a british- American author, essayist, literary critic, screenwriter and journalist. He contributed to New Statesman, The Nation, The Atlantic, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Slate and Vanity Fair. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor and co-editor of over thirty books, including five collections of essays, on a range of subjects, including politics, literature and religion.
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