My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.
Christopher HitchensIt's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body.
Christopher HitchensHereโs someone who says thereโs no such thing, itโs all intelligent design. How sure am I of my own views? Donโt take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think youโre bound to be okay, because youโre in the safely moral majority.
Christopher HitchensOne of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.
Christopher Hitchens'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.
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