#age

I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#age #always #am #around #assumed

The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#even #every #fact #familiar #intolerance

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #boring #dull #image #left

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#humor #i #possible #sense #sense of humor

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#existence #felt #getting #i #leading

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#age #anything #back #being #bombed

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#consistent #dead #dealt #even #gone

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#enough #i #ruthlessly #think #waged

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#awful #because #cancer #case #certainty

It'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 Hitchens

#detection #especially #even #good #inside