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"Don't criticize what you can't understand."
"The literature hardly helps. You remember it only when you are well, healthy, and in a positive state of mind. And you tend to blame your circumstances and people around you for the outcome of the follies you commit."
"Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker."
"Miracle centered gospels cripple the present and generations to come."
"Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them."
"All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren't satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs."
"There is more evil than good when we preach the miracle centered gospel instead of the kingdom gospel."
"What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal."
"Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it."
Explore more quotes by Christopher Hitchens
"One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and honored representatives, people whom you first met when they were on the run or in exile or (like Adam) in and out of jail. I was to have this experience again, and I hope to have it many more times in the future: it sometimes allows me to feel that life is full of point."
"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."
"A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends."
"Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker."
"Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet."
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