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In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Been Both Burning Candle Denial Ends Finding Gives Knowingly Light Lovely Often One Way Some Suppose Time Way

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The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Battle Been Cause Condition Forever Go Going Hope Human Human Condition Life My Life Oppose Part Superstition Win You

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The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: American Any Anymore Ask Being Could Force Itself Left Meaningless Near Nonsensical Politics Really Term Well Why Would

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I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Again Center Children Decade Earn Elderly Enough Felt Had Hard Henry Indeed Joseph Kissinger Like Live Married Next Obituaries Plans Read Real Really Rise See Trade Villains Watch Will Worked World World Trade World Trade Center Write

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Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Become Candy Cases Crutch Distraction Driving Growth Idiom Irritated Like Many Out Parents Point Rest Simultaneously Some Spread Teachers Term Through True Vegetables Vocabulary Way Young

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To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Opposition

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Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Afterlife Any Argument Evidence God More Only Persuasive Say Than Well

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Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Bonding Care Considerable Danger Elephant Even Evidence Face Others Pig Show Societies Solidarity

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Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: America Associations Currency Elizabeth Etiquette Immediate More North North America Ontario Polite Queen Reassuring Regime Say Somewhat States Street Thought Toronto United United States Version Welfare

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Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Barbaric Become Export Ideas Infected Lot Many Most Pakistan People Reactionary Uneducated Whom

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 13th, 1949

Died: December 15th, 2011

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