Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens was born in Portsmouth England. He wrote for a variety of British magazines. Afterwards, he moved to the US in 1981. Hitchens authored twelve books and five collections of essays.

His work concentrates on a variety of topics, including politics, literature and religion. He established himself as one of the leading contemporary writers. He even went so far as to offend his readership with his controversial positions on religion.

According to him, the very concept of a Supreme Being or God is a nothing but a totalitarian belief that leads to the destruction of individual freedom.

Date of birth:
13th April, 1949
Date of death:
15th December, 2011
"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
Topic(s): Work
"Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation."
― Christopher Hitchens
Topic(s): Work
"I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise."
― Christopher Hitchens
Topic(s): Women
"To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?"
― Christopher Hitchens
Topic(s): Women
"For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them."
― Christopher Hitchens
Topic(s): Women
"There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar."
― Christopher Hitchens
Topic(s): War
"A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative."
― Christopher Hitchens
Topic(s): War
"I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged."
― Christopher Hitchens
Topic(s): War
"I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap."
― Christopher Hitchens
Topic(s): War
"My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it."
― Christopher Hitchens
Topic(s): Time

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