#u

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

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

— Christopher Hitchens

#being #i #i think #something #think

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

— Christopher Hitchens

#eruption #i #internationalism #last #marxist

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

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 here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#evolution #exceptions #here #i #life

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#children #cycle #feminist #floor #get

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

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#i #idea #keen #unconscious