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People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Christopher Hitchens
Thinking, People, Age
"Atheist Hitchens stares death in the eye". "ABC News" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. December 16, 2011.

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

Christopher Hitchens
Dull, Problem, Boring

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Christopher Hitchens
Feelings, My Time
Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.8, Hachette UK

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

Christopher Hitchens
Catholic, Church, Doe
Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.105, Melville House

To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness.

Christopher Hitchens
Running, Exercise, Risk
"American right vows to settle score as Bush's nemesis turns up the heat" by Lawrence Donegan, Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2004.

Cheap booze is a false economy.

Christopher Hitchens
Alcohol, Economy, Booze
Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.315, Atlantic Books Ltd

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Christopher Hitchens
War, Thinking, Enough
"The Left and 9/11" by Adam Shatz, www.thenation.com. September 5, 2002.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Christopher Hitchens
Suicide, Religious, Community
"Christmas with Christopher Hitchens". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like.

Christopher Hitchens
Atheist, Said

Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.

Christopher Hitchens
Fun, Exercise, Fit
Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.173, Atlantic Books Ltd

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

Christopher Hitchens
Atheist, Views, Virtue

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

Christopher Hitchens
Needs, Faults, Materialism
Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.251, Hachette UK

Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.

Christopher Hitchens
Bombs, Troops, Concentration
Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5066, NYU Press

With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.

Christopher Hitchens
Transformation, Modern, Dentistry
Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.

Christopher Hitchens
Men, Drunk, Responsible
Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1575, Atlantic Books Ltd

Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

Christopher Hitchens
Punishment, Desire, Fierce
Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

Christopher Hitchens
Hands, Looks, Gone
Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.94, Melville House

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

Christopher Hitchens
Country, Born, Felt
"War of words" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2006.

I'm quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more immediate one than some believed - were I'm sure convinced that they were right on fact, I don't think they were making it up. So as to lying, I don't think it has been established that any lies were told.

Christopher Hitchens
Lying, Thinking, Iraq

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Christopher Hitchens
Thinking, Conception

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do.

Christopher Hitchens
Way, Nihilist, Decent
Christopher Hitchens (2001). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Basic Books (AZ)

So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline. I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person has to do in slower motion.

Christopher Hitchens
Healthy, Disease, Decline
Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.42, Atlantic Books Ltd

I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.

Christopher Hitchens
Religious, Atheism, Trying

When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen

Christopher Hitchens
Fall, Cds, People
Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.32, Atlantic Books Ltd

It's normally agreed that the question 'How are you?' doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer.

Christopher Hitchens
Giving, Answers, Honest
Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.28, Atlantic Books Ltd

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