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" I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust. "
Christopher Hitchens
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" I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious. "
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" A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative. "
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" There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument. "
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" I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do. "
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" What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. "
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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. "
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" In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them. "
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" When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting. "
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" When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children. "
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" Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts. "
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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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" Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. "
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" Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake. "
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" A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it. "
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" The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home. "
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" There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar. "
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" I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. "
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" 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. "
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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.' "
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" Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. "
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" It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing. "
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