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Otto Katz once said to Arthur Koestler, “We all have inferiority complexes of various sizes, but yours isn't a complex—it's a cathedral.” Koestler liked this remark so much that he included it in his autobiography, thus attaining the status of one who could actually brag about his inferiority complex as if size mattered.
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It is odd, when you think about it, that we accuse racists of “discrimination.” This is the very thing of which they are by definition incapable: They think all members of certain groups are the same.
— Feb 23, 2013 11:24PM
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I remembered what my old friend the late Edward Said had told me: “You should
go to Tunisia, Christopher. It’s the gentlest country in Africa. Even the Islamists are highly civilized!”
— Feb 16, 2013 09:31AM
go to Tunisia, Christopher. It’s the gentlest country in Africa. Even the Islamists are highly civilized!”
Prithvi Shams
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Bernard-Henri Lévy once even produced a damning time line showing that every Pakistani “capture” of a wanted jihadist had occurred the week immediately preceding a vote in Congress on subventions to the government in Islamabad.
— Feb 14, 2013 06:31AM
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Hitchens'glib view of post-invasion Afghanistan sickens me. I'm supposed to accept that the US is this ever-merciful saviour that just swooped in on Taliban Afghanistan and gifted them democracy. Curious mind wants to know- who was it that armed and financed the Taliban in the first place? I sure hope not the CIA!
— Feb 13, 2013 06:33AM
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The empire on which the sun never set was also the empire on which the gore never dried.
— Jan 31, 2013 09:40AM
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Things I've gleaned so far,
1) If Oscar Wilde is the question, Gore Vidal is the answer.
2) I have definitely got to read "Our Man in Havana" by Graham Greene before I disappear for good
3) Reading Hitchens is pure torture if English isn't your first language
— Jan 27, 2013 10:05AM
1) If Oscar Wilde is the question, Gore Vidal is the answer.
2) I have definitely got to read "Our Man in Havana" by Graham Greene before I disappear for good
3) Reading Hitchens is pure torture if English isn't your first language
