Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
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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Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.
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The gods that we’ve made are exactly the gods you’d expect to be made by a species that’s about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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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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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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One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody – not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms – had the smallest idea what was going on.
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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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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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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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