#wil

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#doorstop #find #hardcover #i #interesting

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#certain #day #diabolical #die #doubt

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#described #east #faction #making #many

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 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

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

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#me #much #remain #true #will

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cats #compelled #conclusion #dogs #draw

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#everything #islamists #spoil #try #will

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#antiwar #british #generally #interests #involved