#life

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#cut #drama #dull #life #out

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#cinema #life #me #piece #slice

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.' ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#eternal #eternal life #good #horrible #i

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

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

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#happy #i #life #most #my life

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#i #life #much #my life #read

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cause #endangered #good #good cause #gravely

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

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#am #become #cancer #died #father