“A few months ago, I was sitting morosely at my desk, wondering why I had ever agreed to review Barbara Bush: A… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that George Orwell , in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings , and I was always on my… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Offered a job as book critic for Time magazine as a young man, Bellow had been interviewed by Chambers and asked to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It isn’t so long since a test of Anglican orthodoxy was applied to anyone seeking to study or teach at Oxford and Cambridge universities.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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