#ions

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#always #artistic #artwork #ashtray #death

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#around #avoid #best #calm #clear

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#came #candidate #day #did #die

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#because #bit #consolations #contempt #false

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#catholic #catholic church #church #deal #deny

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#both #carry #day #die #dying

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#evolution #exceptions #here #i #life

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

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#die #every #every day #everyone #go

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#commandments #dictation #get #getting #good