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Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#arrive #being #border #canada #gay

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#black-and-white #bush #every #evil #george

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 #could #deadline #fabulous #first

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #dialectic #give #giving #i

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#always #been #believe #cannot #cognitive

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#alone #bears #black #brotherly #case

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#although #better #better life #both #buy

I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

#based #came #coffin #died #during

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. ↗

— David Hockney

#arrival #bottom #done #early #first

On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger. ↗

— David Hockney

#every #finger #found #got #i