Christopher Hitchens
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born
April 13, 1949
gender
male
place of birth
Portsmouth, The United Kingdom
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Nonfiction, Politics, Religion & Spirituality
influences
Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, George Orwell
about this author
"Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949) is an English-born American author, journalist and literary critic. Currently living in Washington, D.C., he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens is also a political observer, whose best-selling books — the latest being God Is Not Great — have made him a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits.
Hitchens is a polemicist and intellectual. While he was once identified with the Anglo-American radical political left, he has more recently embraced some arguably right-wing causes, notably the Iraq War; the war has had the support of some liberal commentators of Hitchens'...more
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"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."
— Christopher Hitchens
— Christopher Hitchens
"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 Non-believer)
— Christopher Hitchens (The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-believer)
"...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 Non-believer)
— Christopher Hitchens (The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-believer)
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