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" To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?' "

Christopher Hitchens

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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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" Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know. "

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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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