Christopher Hitchens

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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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

#been #control #disorder #even #fast

It doesn't take much to make me angry. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cards #christmas #friends #holiday #how

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#literature #metaphor #mind #other #scripture

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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