Christopher Hitchens

Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il Sung. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dictatorship #kim-il-sung #north-korea #psychology #subordination

The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#bored #fact #get #land #opportunity

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#i #life #much #my life #read

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#advanced #constitution #decent #i #quite

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#conduct #even #good #guarantee #i

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#feeling #i #like #more #my time

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#felt #i #represented #worst

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#book #dear #i #idea #never

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #countless #horror #i #korea

I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#even #feel #i #i feel #notice