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Putin’s Faithful declare “Holy War.”
Hitch warned us: “We will all live to regret Putin's revanchist mafia theocracy.”
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Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Christopher Hitchens Quotes
@HitchensQuotes
Quotes on politics & literature from the late Christopher Hitchens, independent radical, internationalist, anti-totalitarian, atheist & anti-theist. UNOFFICIAL.
Katılım Eylül 2009
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@ProfDBrinkley Do you have any knowledge of Hitchens’s event with Vonnegut in 1999 in LA? Or any other meeting between them? Are any transcribed or, better yet, recorded?
Thanks!
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All the Oppenheimer discourse has made me think of this interesting & thought provoking discussion between Christopher Hitchens & AC Grayling on the ethics of the Allied bombings during WWII (with a bit specifically on Hiroshima & Nagasaki).
youtube.com/watch?v=hh7swg…
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“People began to intone the words ‘The Personal is The Political.’ At the instant I first heard this deadly expression, I knew as one does from the utterance of any sinister bullshit that it was - cliché is arguably forgiven here - very bad news.” - Christopher Hitchens
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This is Christopher Hitchens’s last interview. An abridged transcript was published in New Statesman at the time, but I thought I’d lost the original recording. To my delight, I rediscovered it on an old hard disc. I publish it in full, as a historic document (links in my blog).
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What would Christopher #Hitchens make of today's Left? Matt @mattjj89 Johnson argues that revisiting Hitch might help us rediscover free expression, individual rights & universalism as opposed to identity politics.
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“Then they entered the city and, as night fell, found themselves at the dawn of time, and in the midst of the chaos that is the first condition of all new universes.” Fiction by Salman Rushdie. nyer.cm/CDOS8D7
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@AdrianBonenber1 @SilvermanJacob When he would learn that something bad had befallen someone he disliked intensely, Christopher Hitchens used to assume a caricatural, 'Colonel Klink-style' stage German accent and say, "And you know, for a moment I almost felt sorry for them."
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Twitter deserves a better class of Hitchens gifs, by the way. How does one change that?
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Pat Robertson, Televangelist Who Blamed Gay People for 9/11 and Hurricanes, Dies
The conspiratorial hatemonger who founded the Christian Broadcasting Network helped usher Christian-conservatism into the mainstream.
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Martin Amis’s literary voice was “instantly recognizable,” Salman Rushdie writes. “Only Martin sounded like Martin Amis, and it was unwise to try to imitate him.” nyer.cm/Ftxpayt
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“We will all live to regret Putin's revanchist mafia theocracy.”
- Christopher Hitchens
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In 2009, the peerless and fearless Christopher Hitchens predicted exactly that a new generation will rise to overthrow the mullahs in Iran soon.
RIP @HitchensQuotes 12/15/2011
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Christopher Hitchens on Iran's Rebellious Youth youtu.be/rQrwBd6FUag via @YouTube
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“I need the junky energy that scotch can provide, and the intense short-term concentration that nicotine can help supply. To be crouched over a book or keyboard, with these conditions of mingled reverie and alertness, is my highest happiness” - Christopher Hitchens
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“Nazism was obsessed by art and ‘culture’ but was almost by definition incapable of creating anything that could be recognized as such. It was, however, capable both of destroying art and plundering it.”
Art in Peril: The Third Reich and the Old Masters, @washingtonpost 06/05/94
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