Christopher Hitchens

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Christopher Hitchens

Born: April 13, 1949

Died: December 15, 2011

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author, writer, journalist

Biography: Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English American author and journalist whose career spanned more than four decades. Hitchens, often referred to colloquially as Hitch was a columnist and literary critic for New Statesman, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Mirror, The Times Literary Supplement, Free Inquiry, and Vanity Fair. He was an author of twelve books and five collections of essays.

Christopher Hitchens

“A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.”

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“And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.”

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“Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.”

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“High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.”

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“I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.”

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“I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice.”

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“I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?”

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“I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.”

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“I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.”

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“I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.”

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Source/Notes: Mortality (2013 edition), Atlantic Books Ltd - ISBN: 9780857897657
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“I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.”

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“In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.”

- Christopher Hitchens

Source/Notes: Mortality (2013 edition), Atlantic Books Ltd - ISBN: 9780857897657
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“It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.”

- Christopher Hitchens

Source/Notes: Mortality (2013 edition), Atlantic Books Ltd - ISBN: 9780857897657
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“Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.”

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