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I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in Hungary and Suez, very well. And getting a sense that the world was dangerous, a sense that the

I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in Hungary and Suez, very well. And getting a sense that the world was dangerous, a sense that the game was up, that the Empire was over.

Christopher Hitchens
Games, Watches, News
Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.42, Melville House

One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at the end of the evening, hoping for the chance to have a word. And I don't so much object to his holding my coat in that marked manner, as if mutely reminding me that it's time to be on my way. No, it's the snickering that gets me down.

Christopher Hitchens
Coats, Way, Evening
Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.31, Atlantic Books Ltd

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

Christopher Hitchens
Superstitions, Charm

For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going.

Christopher Hitchens
Morning, Hate, First Love
"'For the Sake of Argument' by Christopher Hitchens". "Booknotes" with Brian Lamb, October 17, 1993.

Of course, I do everything for money.

Christopher Hitchens
Courses
"The Contrarian". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. June 2, 2010.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Christopher Hitchens
Losing Control, World, Disorder

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

Christopher Hitchens
Atheist, Atheism, Doe
Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.41, Hachette UK

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

Christopher Hitchens
Greek, Why Not, Polish

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

Christopher Hitchens
Memories, Liars, Remarkable
Christopher Hitchens (2012). “The Trial of Henry Kissinger”, p.88, Atlantic Books Ltd

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

Christopher Hitchens
Eye, Matter, Taste

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.'

Christopher Hitchens
Thinking, Feelings, Poison

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

Christopher Hitchens
Views, Ordinary, Ethics

If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem.

Christopher Hitchens
Thinking, Light, Self

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a "Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

Christopher Hitchens
Stars, War, Technology
"Not Even a Hedgehog" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. June 7, 2004.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'

Christopher Hitchens
Class, People, Missing
"Look who's talking". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2002.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Christopher Hitchens
Alarms, Mars, Invasion
"Not Even a Hedgehog" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. June 7, 2004.

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

Christopher Hitchens
Atheist, Hurt, Waiting
"Christopher Hitchens Discusses His Book ‘God Is Not Great’ at Authors@Google Series". singjupost.com. August 16, 2007.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Christopher Hitchens
Cancer, Long, People
"Anderson Cooper 360°", transcripts.cnn.com. August 5, 2010.

Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.

Christopher Hitchens
Media, Departed, Kim Il Sung
Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.507, Atlantic Books Ltd

[Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore.

Christopher Hitchens
Sorry, Iraq, Bosnia

If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that 'Of course we have free will, we have no choice.' To say that it's a gift is to negate the whole concept of free will on its face. So, if that isn't self-evident, I can't think of anything that would meet the definition of being self-evident.

Christopher Hitchens
Thinking, Self, Choices

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.

Christopher Hitchens
Interesting, Depth, Strategic
Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.104, Melville House

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

Christopher Hitchens
Guarantees, Indicators, Implied

There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.

Christopher Hitchens
Ancient, Surnames

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

Christopher Hitchens
Years, Abuse, Constitution

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