Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.
Christopher HitchensIt's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.
Christopher HitchensFor the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.
Christopher HitchensI have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
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