There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn’t be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it’s a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
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Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God’s on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.
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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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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.
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I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it’s a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
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Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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Today I want to puke when I hear the word ‘radical’ applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.
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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.
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I’m not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.
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I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.
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I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
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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.
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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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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
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Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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