Quote by Christopher Hitchens
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and wat

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, Im in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesnt feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting. – Christopher Hitchens

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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

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The advice Ive been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you cant give up politics, it wont give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself. – Christopher Hitchens

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A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other peoples hope. – Christopher Hitchens

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