Christopher Hitchens Quotes

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Christopher Hitchens

Profession : Author

Birth : April 13, 1949

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

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Christopher Hitchens

I was becoming post-ideological.

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I don't consider myself to be that credulous.

Christopher Hitchens

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

Christopher Hitchens

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

Christopher Hitchens

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.

Christopher Hitchens

I'm terrified of losing my voice.

Christopher Hitchens

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

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It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

Christopher Hitchens

Chemotherapy isn't good for you.

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I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

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I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

Christopher Hitchens

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

Christopher Hitchens

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

Christopher Hitchens

If you can talk, you can write.

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I wanted to write.

Christopher Hitchens

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

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I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Christopher Hitchens

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

Christopher Hitchens