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" I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth. "
Christopher Hitchens
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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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" 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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" All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't. "
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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. "
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" I was becoming post-ideological. "
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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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" I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. "
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" I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much. "
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" Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt. "
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" The violence in the Bible is appalling. "
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" I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice. "
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" I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised. "
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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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" 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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" My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist. "
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" I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. "
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" I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way. "
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" Obscenity comes from grime. "
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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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" Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. "
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