Christopher Hitchens Quotes

• He said something that made it impossible to continue working for him. You’re fired.

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• In one way, I suppose, I have been ‘in denial’ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

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• To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

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• What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

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• If I convert it’s because it’s better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

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• Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

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• It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

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• Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.

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• Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can’t.

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• For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

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

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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.

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• Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

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• Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

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• ‘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.

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• Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

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• All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

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• A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

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• A gentleman is never rude except on purpose – I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

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• A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

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Christopher Hitchens (166)

Birth:	13th April, 1949
Death:	15th December, 2011
Nationality:	American, British
Profession:	Author, Critic, Essayist, Journalist, Screenwriter

About

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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