#it

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#behind #committee #doing #i #ideas

Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#label #like #major #major label #military

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#although #bit #bryan #cheesy #ferry

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#book #day #down #dusk #get

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#character #great #high #moral #moral character

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#attempt #believing #care #cosmology #cultural

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

The only critic is a full house. ↗

— Rudolf Nureyev

#full #house #only

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

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