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Able Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it…
- No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book or…
- The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if…
- A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to…
- If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at…
- What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get…
- I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass…
- The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be…
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