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#1

“Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

tags: ask, humor, lies, questions, sarcasm, wit, witty

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#2

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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#3

“You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: humor

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#4

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, dreams

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#5

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: books, christopher-hitchens, humour, literature, writing

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#6

“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

tags: fate

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#7

“I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: atheism, delusions, fantasy, illusions, religion

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#8

“Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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#9

“The finest fury is the most controlled.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

tags: anger, bob-dylan, control, fury, lonesome-death-of-hattie-carroll, music

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#10

“A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

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#11

“And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

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#12

“I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

tags: death, english-language, french, time

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#13

“What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: happiness, vindication

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#14

“The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: anal-sex, champagne, lobster, picnics

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#15

“Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: awkwardness, best-friends, friends, friendship, martin-amis

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#16

“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

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#17

“It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

tags: mortality, pain

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#18

“You have to choose your future regrets.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: freedom, future, life, philosophy-of-religion, rationality, wisdom

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#19

“Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

tags: sacrifice, war

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#20

“In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

tags: drug-test, drugs, liberty, privacy, urinalysis, war-on-drugs

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#21

“Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers).
How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around).
What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: consciousness, death, languages, polyglots, questionnaires, talents, ugliness

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#22

“[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger

tags: cyprus, cyprus-dispute, greece, guilt, henry-kissinger, makarios-iii, moral-responsibility

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#23

“Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped.”
― Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints

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#24

“You’re not really an adult at all. You’re just a tall child holding a beer, having a conversation you don’t understand.”
― Dylan Moran

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#25

“[Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.”
― Dylan Moran

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#26

“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”
― Sinclair Lewis

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#27

“What is to give light must endure burning.”
― Victor Frankl

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#28

“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson

tags: horses, leadership, war

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#29

“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
― John Maxwell

tags: leadership

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#30

“We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one.”
― Tom Hiddleston

tags: inspirational, life

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