29 books
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4 voters
1992
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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses in all, three of them in the course of one day. I certainly thought that the Bosnian cause was worth fighting for and worth defending, but I could not take myself seriously enough to imagine that my own demise would have forwarded the cause. (I also discovered that a famous jaunty Churchillism had its limits: the old war-lover wrote in one of his more youthful
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― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
