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• The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.

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  Love Is, Humanity, Three

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.306, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

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  Atheist, Pride, Secret

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.57, Basic Books

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• Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.

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  Jesus, Eye, Looks

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's a junk cure. Drink when you are in a good mood. Cheap booze is a false economy. It's not true that you shouldn't drink alone: these can be the happiest glasses you ever drain. Hangovers are another bad sign, and you should not expect to be believed if you take refuge in saying you can't properly remember last night. (If you really don't remember, that's an even worse sign.)

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  Hangover, Night, Glasses

  "Hitch-22" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. June 6, 2010.

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• Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

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  Religion, Redemption, Surrender

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• The prostitute journalist is a familiar and well-understood figure in the Middle East, and Saddam Hussein's regime made lavish use of the buyability of the regional press. Now we, too, have hired that clapped-out old floozy, Miss Rosie Scenario, and sent her whoring through the streets.

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  Missing, Middle East, Use

  "Secrets and Lies" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. December 5, 2005.

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• Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

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  Religion, Logic, Forgotten

  "Mommie Dearest" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. October 20, 2003.

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• Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

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  Fleeting, Kind, Life Is

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. If you have a political loyalty, you may be offered a shady reason for agreeing to a lie or a half-truth that serves some short-term purpose. Everybody devises tactics for getting through such moments; try behaving "as if" they need not be tolerated and are not inevitable.

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  Loyalty, Bullying, Average

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.39, Basic Books

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• Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock.

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  Rocks, Jingles, Three

  Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet ...: Essays”, p.285, Signal

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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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  Ideas, People, Pakistan

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• We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way

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  Stupid, Medicine, Long

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.772, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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  Christian, War, Islamic

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• I think everybody has had the experience at some point when they feel that there's more to life than just matter. But I think it's very important to keep that under control and not to hand it over to be exploited by priests and shamans and rabbis and other riffraff.

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  Thinking, Hands, Important

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst.

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  Real, Style, Opponents

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.270, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?

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  Conflict, States

  "Hitch-22". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.

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• We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.

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  Atheist, Stupid, Men

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.392, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity

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  People, Allies, Impossible

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.15, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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  Thinking, Views, Political

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• An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

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  Ideas, Challenges, Sense Of Humor

  Christopher Hitchens (2001). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.

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  Criminals, Elements, Force

  "The Hell of War" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. June 5, 2006.

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• There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the State, should it rule now, should it claim to govern people in the here and now, or should it wait until the Messiah, the 12th Imam, comes back and would it only be then appropriate for religious rule to bring about a world of universal justice and vindication.

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  Religious, Views, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam!

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  Dying, Sanctions, Willing

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5148, NYU Press

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• If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition.

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  Country, Good Life, Men

  Source: www.heavenonearthdocumentary.com

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• A Great voice has fallen silent. A great heart has stopped.

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  Heart, Voice, Silent

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