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Christopher HitchensTeasing is very often a sign of inner misery.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: self-esteem teasing
Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro. If something is worth hearing or listening to, it's very probably worth reading. So, this above all: Find your own voice.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: humor writing-advice
How much vanity must be concealed-not too effectively at that- in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?
Christopher HitchensThe problem with open-mindedness is that it can become empty-mindedness
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: open-mindedness
Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro.
Christopher HitchensWhatever view one takes of the outcome being affected by morale, it seems certain that the realm of illusion must be escaped before anything else.
Christopher Hitchensthe religion which treats its flock as a credulous plaything offers one of the cruelest spectacles that can be imagined: a human being in fear and doubt who is openly exploited to believe in the impossible
Christopher HitchensYou have to choose your future regrets.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: wisdom life future freedom rationality philosophy-of-religion
From Alan Lightman's intricate 1993 novel Einstein's Dreams; set in Berne in 1905: With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great-grandparents, great-aunts...and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own...Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
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