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“I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.”

Christopher Hitchens · Humor

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Christopher Hitchens

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting.

Attitude

Christopher Hitchens

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

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Christopher Hitchens

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

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Christopher Hitchens

Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

God