#out

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#give #i #out #things #up

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

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing. ↗

— Jim Hodges

#me #next #next thing #often #out

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dark #defeat #depression #giving #had

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

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#age #always #certain #certain age #certainly

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#alarm #bible #constituencies #end #foreshadowed

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#effect #generosity #great #great thing #had

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#better #comes #cynicism #down #hard

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dogma #doubt #experience #faith #greedily