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Christopher Hitchens Quotes

«Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities [Michael Moore].»
«The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics.»
«As I never tire of saying, heat is not the antithesis of light but rather the source of it.»
«Victor invented me, in a way. He gave me a desk and a sponsor and a place to hang my hat, which was what I needed.»
«To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental,»
«Mr. Blumenthal stated that Monica Lewinsky had been a 'stalker' and that the president was 'the victim' of a predatory and unstable sexually demanding young woman, ... Referring to Ms. Lewinsky, Mr. Blumenthal used the word 'stalker' several times.»
«I have personal knowledge that Mr. Blumenthal recounted to other people in the journalistic community the same story about Monica Lewinsky that he told to me and Carol Blue.»
«To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental.»
«Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet ? who was only another male mammal ? is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent.»