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" I like surprises. "

Christopher Hitchens

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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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" I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. "

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" I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. "

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" I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps. "

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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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