“The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
“[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
“I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
“When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.”
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
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