Christopher Hitchens Quotes

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

Small, Growing, Joined

I like surprises.
Christopher Hitchens

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.
Christopher Hitchens

Live, Die, Living

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.
Christopher Hitchens

Mean, Words, Write

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.
Christopher Hitchens

Earth, Knew, Felt

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.
Christopher Hitchens

Depth, Retain, Strategic

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.
Christopher Hitchens

Life, Good, Wish

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.
Christopher Hitchens

Law, Country, Cannot

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.
Christopher Hitchens

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
Christopher Hitchens

Write, Manner, Fairly

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.
Christopher Hitchens

History, Conception, Valid

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.
Christopher Hitchens

Last, Actually, Took

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
Christopher Hitchens

Power, Thought, Wish

I vote and I do jury duty.
Christopher Hitchens

Vote, Duty, Jury

I wanted to write.
Christopher Hitchens

I was becoming post-ideological.
Christopher Hitchens

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.
Christopher Hitchens

Give, Early, Worked

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.
Christopher Hitchens

Country, Wrong, Born

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
Christopher Hitchens

Afraid, Church, Deal

I'm crepuscular.
Christopher Hitchens

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
Christopher Hitchens

Life, Here, Process

I'm not a conservative of any kind.
Christopher Hitchens

I'm not a sheep.
Christopher Hitchens

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.
Christopher Hitchens

Time, Live, Long

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.
Christopher Hitchens

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 13, 1949

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