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Famous Christopher Hitchens Quotes
“Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.”
“I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.”
“I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.”
“I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.”
“I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.”
“I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.”
“I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.”
“I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.”
“I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.”
“I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.”
“Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.”
“Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.”
“Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.”
“The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.”
“To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.”