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The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Account Another Apparently Bad Bad Things Charge Credit Good Good Things Human Miraculous Things Universal Wish

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To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Choose Dogma Doubt Experience Faith Out Over Reach Throw Vintage

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When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Aunt Cancer Climbing Doctors Early Elbow Everest Forth Gave Great Had Heard Her Just Last Live Meet Mount Mount Everest Must Off People Quite Say Seconds She Switch Tell Time Which Who You

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Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive' spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of 'bonsai.'

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Appreciate Backward Bosnia Every First First Time Naive Now Now And Then See Suddenly Then Time Will Word

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To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Children Consider Creation Good Hell Image Inferior Women World

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Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Elements Everyday First Invest Lovers Meetings Often Out Retrospective Significance Stubborn Try Witness

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Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Comfort Me Much Remain True Will Word Written Written Word

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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 least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Able Accuracy Any Argument Boasting Case Could Least Other Person Political Put Reasonable Say Side Think Well Without I Think I Can

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The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Air Argument Become Discussion Liberal Much Possible Remove Secular Some Things

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One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: American Been Boring Dull Image Left Many Problems Rather Righteous Solemn Something Too

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 13th, 1949

Died: December 15th, 2011

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