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Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: After Age Always Certain Certain Age Certainly Deserve Did Face Finally Flattering George George Orwell Look Looked Myself Now People Say Says Think Thought Until Well Which Without Would Younger I Think

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Of course, I do everything for money.

~Christopher Hitchens

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The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Awful Because Bored Boring Call Days Feel Foggy Head Resigned Stupid Well Worst You

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I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Anything Anything Else Bodies Changed Else Souls Think Way

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My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Cycles Dead Elected Favorite Infallible Know Life Miss New New One Pope Public Public Life Those Time Weeks Who World You

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I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Been Come Earth Felt Going Knew Least Like Must People September Something Surprised Very

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The violence in the Bible is appalling.

~Christopher Hitchens

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'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 but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Another Apart Class Culture Ethnic Fact Group History In Fact Just Lower Only Other Redneck Same Social Standing Strata Term Tied Up Wasp Way Which Who Word

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Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Anxiety Endurance Experience Grave Illness Involves Like Long Long Periods Pain Periods Stark Terminal Terror Warfare

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Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Against Alarm Both Counterparts His Invasion Mars Reagan Ronald Reagan Saying Soviet Surely Unite Used

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 13th, 1949

Died: December 15th, 2011

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