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| 01f5437 | Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact. | islamism jihadism osama-bin-laden personal-questions terrorism | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 2145d3f | In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement. | christianity edward-said humility london palestine religion rushdie | Christopher Hitchens | |
| e7778f1 | A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target. | debate ineptitude malice norman-g-finkelstein smear-campaigns | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 117d60c | Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed by Rosa Luxemburg, writing from prison in 1917 to her anguished friend Mathilde Wurm: An inordinate proportion of the Marxists I have known would probably have formulated their own views in much the same way. It was almost a point of honor not to engage in 'thinking with the blood,' to borrow a notable phra.. | africans compassion dh-lawrence empathy europeans internationalism jewish-question jews marxism mathilde-verne plantations prison race racism rootless-cosmopolitanism rosa-luxemburg suffering victims | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 6d322ee | It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile. | fairies hero-worship john-f-kennedy kennedy-family politics puerility robert-dallek robert-f-kennedy senility united-states | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 2572673 | It's quite a task to combat the absolutists and the relativists at the same time: to maintain that there is no totalitarian solution while also insisting that, yes, we on our side also have unalterable convictions and are willing to fight for them. After various past allegiances, I have come to believe that Karl Marx was rightist of all when he recommended continual doubt and self-criticism. Member in the skeptical faction or tendency is no.. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 531c100 | Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or at least has held and not yet repudiated) that the end of days and the Second Coming will occur in her lifetime. This completes the already strong case for allowing her to pass the rest of her natural life span as a private citizen. | christianity end-time fundamentalism politics sarah-palin second-coming-of-christ united-states | Christopher Hitchens | |
| a62b52c | The high ambition, therefore, seems to me to be this: That one should strive to combine the maximum of impatience with the maximum of skepticism, the maximum of hatred of injustice and irrationality with the maximum of ironic self-criticism. This would mean really deciding to learn from history rather than invoking or sloganising it. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 7ca24cd | I was abruptly recognized as nonthreatening, brusquely advised to fuck off, and off I duly and promptly fucked. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 499d452 | The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the "war" against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity." | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 5a8bacd | Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome. | authorship editing | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 970b6f0 | Like so many of life's varieties of experience, the novelty of a diagnosis of malignant cancer has a tendency to wear off. The thing begins to pall, even to become banal. One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at the end of the evening, hoping for the chance to have a word. And I don't so much object to his holding my coat in that marked manner, as if mutely remindin.. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| b5d9411 | Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| ba590df | Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually nonconformist as existing in a state of incurable mortal sin that can incidentally cause floods and earthquakes. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| f9a54a4 | To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. | logic rationalisation reason september-11-attacks | Christopher Hitchens | |
| f939281 | I don't approve of mixing ideologies," Ivanov continued. "There are only two conceptions of human ethics, and they are at opposite poles. One of them is Christian and humane, declares the individual to be sacrosanct, and asserts that the rules of arithmetic are not to be applied to human units. The other starts from the basic principle that a collective aim justifies all means, and not only allows, but demands, that the individual should in.. | communism politics | Arthur Koestler | |
| 60010d4 | When one contemplates the streak of insanity running through human history, it appears highly probable that homo sapiens is a biological freak, the result of some remarkable mistake in the evolutionary process. The ancient doctrine of original sin, variants of which occur independently in the mythologies of diverse cultures, could be a reflection of man's awareness of his own inadequacy, of the intuitive hunch that somewhere along the line .. | insanity | Arthur Koestler | |
| 02f46cc | I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden. | Walter Kirn | ||
| ae621d7 | Great discoveries, Ganapathi, are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| afb1006 | I wanted to be strong when I went back to Persuasion. Strong and beautiful and totally together. I dreamed of the day I'd get to rub all your faces in my sheer awesomeness. | coming-home dreams strong-women | Susan Donovan | |
| bfa3ce8 | I just had a precognition, she told Anna silently,a stream of unspoken love and joy. You will be very happy. Your best friend says go for it. | dark-visions | L.J. Smith | |
| 731a3f9 | As they walked home hand in hand, Ian said, "I feel like taking a nap. And by nap I mean move in and out of your naked body at whatever speed you prefer." "And they say men don't know how to communicate." "Well, that's where they're . I was crystal clear." | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 0dfcc64 | You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience-twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled. | Trevanian | ||
| d3290ca | Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist. | travel travel-writing | Evelyn Waugh | |
| 842fa16 | The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. | education intelligence | Evelyn Waugh | |
| 1c9ba4c | These memories are the memorials and pledges of the vital hours of a lifetime. These hours of afflatus in the human spirit, the springs of art, are, in their mystery, akin to the epochs of history, when a race which for centuries has lived content, unknown, behind its own frontiers, digging, eating, sleeping, begetting, doing what was requisite for survival and nothing else, will, for a generation or two, stupefy the world; commit all manne.. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 3e4813c | What an immature, self-destructive, antiquated mischief is man! How obscure and gross his prancing and chattering on his little stage of evolution! How loathsome and beyond words boring all the thoughts and self-approval of his biological by-product! this half-formed, ill-conditioned body! this erratic, maladjusted mechanism of his soul: on one side the harmonious instincts and balanced responses of the animal, on the other the inflexible p.. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| bfb94ab | I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman. | fads fashion timelessness tradition | Evelyn Waugh | |
| 3c42db2 | I couldn't make any judgment on the Summa, except to say this: I read it for about twenty minutes every night before I go to bed. If my mother were to come in during this process and say, 'Turn off that light. It's late,' I with a lifted finger and broad bland beatific expression, would reply, 'On the contrary, I answer that the light, being eternal and limitless, cannot be turned off. Shut your eyes,' or some such thing. | summa-theologicae | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 27fb669 | no one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist. The devil is the greatest believer and he has his reasons. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 2bfa13e | Really, The smart thing to do was to stop dating and get a cat. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 540e7f7 | I've lost her. Can you give me any guidance?" - Sundown "On what? A new personality? Car buying? I'm a Wolf, cowboy, not a life counselor." - Sasha" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 7280dd1 | Who are you talking to?" - Morty "Still in the kitchen, aren't I? Guess I need to keep walking. Oh, look! Yonder is the door, which I'm going to make use of right now." - Nick" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1197de3 | Let me get back to the fact that the universe speaks to us constantly. And this little puppy barks loudly. Guard this with your life because in the right hands, it is your life and your death. You've bled in this book, and it is the most personal of possessions you'll ever have. A master wizard, witch, upper-level demon, or any number of other entities can use it to control or destroy you. In fact, guard every possession you have. Every str.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 2ba82c7 | She smiled with a newfound optimism. "The one thing I've learned most out of all this is that it's not over until all the cards are played. She laid down her ace, thinking we can't beat it. But there are fifty-one other cards in the deck and the game isn't over yet. We'll figure something out. Her little fit right now just shows that she's played her best hand. That was all she's capable of doing to hurt you which is exactly why she did it... | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| dc70dce | She's been hanging out with Nick." - Acheron "Nick? As in I-hate-your-guts-Ash-go-die Nick?" - Tory" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 7dd5090 | We're not dead yet." - Sundown "Yet is the operative word. If that's all that's in the way, I'll kill you and end it. Ren? Give me your knife." - Sasha "It's their decision." - Ren "Oh, that's it. You're fired buddy. Get off my island until you learn to be a team player." - Sasha" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1eb3094 | You don't believe in love, do you?" - "I think it exists. I just don't think it will ever exist for me." | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| ca2f0bd | But I'm a woman, and as the great poet so cleverly wrote, hell hath no fury as a woman scorned. Consider me your personal hell. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 0c1838f | The one thing all that battle taught me, is that no one walks away without scars. No one. (Bad Moon Rising) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 57c39fb | What? Had a dry spell of killing people lately? (Susan) As a matter of fact, yes. If it doesn't end soon, I might get out of practice. (Otto) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 704eaed | What galls you most, old man? The fact that I betrayed you, or the fact that I had the balls to set it right when you didn't? (Ravyn) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 33dae4b | I'm not your bitch, Phobos. You didn't drag me out of the pound to put a collar on me. Don't expect me to heel because you say so. You are on my turf now. Think about it. (ZT) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 6485491 | Anything to piss you off, Brother. Why else? (Arik) Oh, that's easy enough to do. Basically the fact that you breathe does that. (Solin) Love you, too. (Arik) Of course you do, like a plague on your privates. (Solin) | Sherrilyn Kenyon |