#make

Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#after #another #bars #conducted #getting

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#blondes #bloody #footprints #like #make

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#doorstop #find #hardcover #i #interesting

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#doorstop #find #hardcover #i #interesting

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#been #good #good living #i #living

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #could #forget #had #like

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

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

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

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