Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends, — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I've noticed that the more flooding there is, the more bullshit gets talked. I mean it was very noticeable in the Asian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When the [US] president writes to Kim Jong Il, the son, the Dear Leader, he doesn't call him Dear Mr President, he… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I say 'Merry Christmas' to people I don't know, or to people I know are Christians. I say 'Happy Hanukkah' to people… — 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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