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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.

Christopher Hitchens

Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

End Limitation Praise
So there’s nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn’t really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it’s the most nauseating spectacle.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Appearance Believe Myself Sound Talk Thinking
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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Body Book Case Stay
The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
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Mindset People Rejection Thinking Time
The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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Disagreement Risk Sacrifice Title
The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Discrimination Human Ourselves Slave Togetherness
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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Decent Human Religion
I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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Burn Candle End Light Love Myself
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Politics Religious Secularism Simplicity Truth
I’m an atheist. I’m not neutral about religion, I’m hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Atheist Myself Organization Positive Religion Thinking
No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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Divine Himself Oneself Right
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Evidence Information
Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Coward Creation Religion Word
I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language – always the language – was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Key Language Learning Magic Myself Poetry
Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Argument Explanation
I’m a member of no party. I have no ideology. I’m a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that’s all around us.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Member Myself Party Science Struggle

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