"To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off
What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.
~ Christopher Hitchens ~
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What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.
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"Not long ago, having expressed some disagreements in print with an old comrade of long standing, I was sent a response that he had published in an obs...
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"If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.
"Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the r...
"On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that...
"Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of ...
"I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who m...
"The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth havi...
"It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.
"Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy,...
"Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.
"On page 605, Blumenthal says that 'I made friends with Hitchens's friends the novelists Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie.' True in its way. I particular...
"You have to choose your future regrets.