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Quote by Christopher Hitchens
To choose dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw ou

To choose dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. – Christopher Hitchens

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A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today Ill be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. Im crepuscular. – Christopher Hitchens

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Its surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. – Christopher Hitchens

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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. – Ellen Glasgow

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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. – John le Carre

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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience. – David Antin

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