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I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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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

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I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#country #either #every #go #granted

I still think like a Marxist in many ways. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#like #many #marxist #still #think

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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I think the materialist conception of history is valid. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dictators #i #power #remove #should