Christopher Hitchens
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born
April 13, 1949
in Portsmouth, England, The United Kingdom
died
December 15, 2011
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On Dec. 31, 1995, the phone rang, and I answered.
"This is Christopher Hitchens. I'm an American journalist, and I'd like to visit you in a while."
He didn't sound much like an American. My childhood English from Connecticut told me it was a sort of British English. Anyway, it didn't matter. I was glad to hear a friendly voice that night. My husband and I were very gloomy, alone in our t...
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God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything   3.84 avg rating — 13,966 ratings
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2007
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever by Christopher Hitchens , Titus Lucretius Carus , Omar Khayyám 3.98 avg rating — 2,285 ratings
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2007
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Hitch-22 3.89 avg rating — 2,235 ratings
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Letters to a Young Contrarian 3.94 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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2001
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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice 3.91 avg rating — 842 ratings
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1995
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Arguably: Selected Essays 4.23 avg rating — 501 ratings
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger 3.78 avg rating — 506 ratings
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2001
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Why Orwell Matters 3.73 avg rating — 524 ratings
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2002
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Thomas Jefferson: Author of America 3.78 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays 3.95 avg rating — 424 ratings
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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
― Christopher Hitchens
“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
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