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" I wanted to write. "

Christopher Hitchens

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" Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. "

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" No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis. "

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" I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise. "

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" The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. "

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" The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply. "

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

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" I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect. "

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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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" There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument. "

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" I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all. "

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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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" The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. "

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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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" 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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" It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with. "

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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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" I'm not a conservative of any kind. "

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" I like surprises. "

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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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