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

Christopher Hitchens

Biography

Author Profession: Author

Nationality: American

Born: April 13, 1949

Died: December 15, 2011

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Actually, Internationalism, Last, Marxist, Part, Took

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I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

Christopher Hitchens

Me Sometimes Lucky Self-Esteem

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

Christopher Hitchens

God Food Water You

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

Christopher Hitchens

Me People Stupid Argument

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

Christopher Hitchens

People Tolerance Who Narrow-Minded

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.

Christopher Hitchens

Attitude Feel Fighting Go

Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

Christopher Hitchens

Queen Street Thought America

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Christopher Hitchens

Depression Soul Dark Giving

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Christopher Hitchens

Attitude Solidarity Resistance Should

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

Christopher Hitchens

Time You People Great

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Christopher Hitchens

Faith History Health Religion

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Christopher Hitchens

Faith Trust You Mistake

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Christopher Hitchens

Relationship I Am World Words

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Christopher Hitchens

Meetings Try Stubborn Lovers

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

Day Die Every Day Live

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