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 HITCHENSI 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.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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.
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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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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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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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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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To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
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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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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
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My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but you can’t disprove it either.
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