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Famous Christopher Hitchens Quotes
“I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.”
“A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.”
“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”
“I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.”
“I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.”
“Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.”
“Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.”
“For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.”
“High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.”
“I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.”
“I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.”
“It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.”
“I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.”
“Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.”
“Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.”
“The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.”
“You can only have one aim per debate.”