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" George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism. "

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" When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more. "

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" The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures. "

Christopher Hitchens

" I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words. "

Christopher Hitchens

" I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s. "

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" I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information. "

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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. "

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

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" Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.' "

Christopher Hitchens

" I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world. "

Christopher Hitchens

" Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. "

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" I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again. "

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

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" A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me. "

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" I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little. "

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" When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time. "

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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. "

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" And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home. "

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" When Caroline Kennedy managed to say 'you know' more than 200 times in an interview with the New York 'Daily News,' and on 130 occasions while talking to 'The New York Times' during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator, she proved, among other things, that she was (a) middle-aged and (b) middle class. "

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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. "

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" I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does. "

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" The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it. "

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" The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes. "

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" I'm terrified of losing my voice. "

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" I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious. "

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" Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know. "

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" There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise. "

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" It doesn't take much to make me angry. "

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" Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. "

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

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" My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. "

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