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" I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living. "

Christopher Hitchens

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" I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators. "

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" I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap. "

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" I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!' "

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

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" You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed. "

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

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