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“A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

tags: ageing, friendship

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“To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: faults, materialism, sympathy

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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war

“Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports

tags: death, literature, nadine-gordimer, writing

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