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Word Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
- 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.
- A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe…
- Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
- 'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group…
- There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a…
- Today I want to puke when I hear the word 'radical' applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in…
- The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or…
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- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo