Quotes by Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

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What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence. — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the ap — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terr — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did not — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingl — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Cheap booze is a false economy. — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime. — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
th. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience. — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who h — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but...Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." (p. — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world. — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to o — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring. Christianit — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupa — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his p — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her so — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir