Top Passover Seder Quotes
Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day that I was born, 13 April 1949, nineteen senior Nazi officials were...
Christopher Hitchens
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history, war, diplomacy, communism, birth, astronomy, alcohol, censorship, united states, newspapers
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called , or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in th...
Christopher Hitchens
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food, religion, inspiration, writing, atheism, reading, christianity, wine, miracles, brotherhood
One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue to suffer? My grandmother Dodo thought it was because the were jealous. The se...
Christopher Hitchens
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jealousy, religion, war, self respect, children, martyrdom, atheism, suffering, christianity, wine