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I was becoming post-ideological.

Christopher Hitchens

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Of course, I do everything for money.

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To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

Christopher Hitchens

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Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

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I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

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I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

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I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice.

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I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

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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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Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

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The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

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I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.

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You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way.

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A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

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When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

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My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

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The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.

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One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

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Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

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Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'

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Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

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When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

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Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

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