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I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#ever #i #information #journalist #partly

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#chaps #i #like #marilyn #marilyn monroe

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #being #i #i do #issues

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#i #meant #meant to be #politics #think

I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#again #believe #crazy #eden #garden

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#bodies #changed #else #i #souls

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#enough #i #ruthlessly #think #waged

I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#even #feel #i #i feel #notice

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#felt #i #represented #worst

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#center #children #decade #earn #elderly