I’m not afraid of being dead, that’s to say there’s nothing to be afraid of. I won’t know I’m dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I’m alive in any way at all, that’ll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSTake the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
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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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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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If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
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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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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.
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Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‘Well, good on you. See you there.’
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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She’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
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