Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Christopher Hitchens Quotes.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
Christopher Hitchens
I retain what’s interesting to me, but I don’t have a lot of strategic depth.
Christopher Hitchens
I became a journalist because one didn’t have to specialise.
Christopher Hitchens
Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.
Christopher Hitchens
Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.
Christopher Hitchens
The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.
Christopher Hitchens
We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.
Christopher Hitchens
All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.
Christopher Hitchens
The term ‘the American Left’ is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.
Christopher Hitchens
I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.
Christopher Hitchens
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
Christopher Hitchens
I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.
Christopher Hitchens
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.’
Christopher Hitchens
I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.
Christopher Hitchens
I like surprises.
Christopher Hitchens
I vote and I do jury duty.
Christopher Hitchens
Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.
Christopher Hitchens

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