Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

About Christopher Hitchens:

Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English author, literary critic, and journalist who spent much of his career in the United States and became an American citizen.
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You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and...

Christopher Hitchens

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

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If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

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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.

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Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

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There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been ...

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My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Christopher Hitchens

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

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Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, ...

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A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

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Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

Christopher Hitchens

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

Christopher Hitchens

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

Christopher Hitchens

You can only have one aim per debate.

Christopher Hitchens

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

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The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

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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

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

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I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

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I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.

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I don't consider myself to be that credulous.

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Author Bio

  • NameChristopher Hitchens
  • DescriptionBritish American author and journalist
  • BornApril 13, 1949
  • DiedDecember 15, 2011
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; United States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer; Essayist; Autobiographer
  • AwardsRichard Dawkins Award