Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of her detectives to take Jewishness as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm very happy by myself--I'm lucky in that way--if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“ Your favorite occupation? Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There is, in Dr. Tillotson’s writings, an argument against the real presence, which is as concise, and elegant, and strong as any… — 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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