#some

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #boring #dull #image #left

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

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#age #anything #back #being #bombed

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#kind #me #mystery #something #why

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #born #country #felt #i

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 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'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#catholic #catholic church #church #deal #deny

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

#come #earth #felt #going #i

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