A quotation from Christopher Hitchens
The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) English intellectual, polemicist, socio-political critic
Essay (2004-02), “I Fought the Law,” Vanity Fair
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Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
-- Christopher Hitchens
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I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Hitch-22)
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No serious person is not self-taught.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Article in The Nation on Robert Hughes)
Julian Barnes: “Me he vuelto más de izquierdas porque el centro se ha desplazado a la derecha”
In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair Article on His Cancer Diagnosis)
In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair Article on His Cancer Diagnosis)
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No serious person is not self-taught.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Article in The Nation on Robert Hughes)
Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most resonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Harper's (1982))
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