#yin

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#arm #asthmatic #carrying #equalled #his

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#bob dylan #buying #could #dylan #everything

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#competent #drawings #i #line #most

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#anyone #away #books #done #family

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

#both #carry #day #die #dying

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

#awful #because #cancer #case #certainty

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#alarm #both #counterparts #his #invasion

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level. ↗

— Gary Numan

#because #cult #doing #i #i am

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#am #conversation #engage #i #i am

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#big #eventually #keep #lie #make