#up

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#came #candidate #day #did #die

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#attempt #believing #care #cosmology #cultural

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.' ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#am #bad #because #chemotherapy #feel

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#feeling #i #like #more #my time

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

— Christopher Hitchens

#eruption #i #internationalism #last #marxist

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

— Christopher Hitchens

#give #i #out #things #up

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#best #change #come #disillusioned #ever

Genius: the superhuman in man. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#man #superhuman

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#am #become #cancer #died #father

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#concept #continually #exile #loneliness #me