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" When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more. "

Christopher Hitchens

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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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" It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. "

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" When Caroline Kennedy managed to say 'you know' more than 200 times in an interview with the New York 'Daily News,' and on 130 occasions while talking to 'The New York Times' during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator, she proved, among other things, that she was (a) middle-aged and (b) middle class. "

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" I don't consider myself to be that credulous. "

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" It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. "

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" Ordinary morality is innate in my view. "

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

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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 must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come. "

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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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" 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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" 'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. "

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" Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas. "

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" I'm terrified of losing my voice. "

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" In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker. "

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" My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd. "

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" I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny. "

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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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