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Reading Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.
- Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when…
- Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read…
- I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a…
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