The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).
Christopher HitchensMots clés sexuality literary-criticism sex literature magic fable fantasy-literature childishness childlessness
We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments.
Christopher HitchensMots clés history religion bible old-testament brave-new-world aldous-huxley martyrs prophets
Stuck in my own trap of writing about a nonsubject, I think I can defend my own self-respect, and also the integrity of a lost girl, by saying two things. First, the trivial doings of Paris Hilton are of no importance to me, or anyone else, and I should not be forced to contemplate them. Second, she should be left alone to lead such a life as has been left to her. If this seems paradoxical, then very well.
Christopher HitchensMots clés self-respect celebrity paris-hilton celebrity-culture 1-night-in-paris
Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.
Christopher HitchensMots clés forgiveness memory grudges forgetting savant-syndrome
I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that George Orwell, in his second novel, A Clergyman's Daughter , published in 1935, had borrowed from Joyce for his nighttime scene in Trafalgar Square, where Deafie and Charlie and Snouter and Mr. Tallboys and The Kike and Mrs. Bendigo and the rest of the bums and losers keep up a barrage of song snatches, fractured prayers, curses, and crackpot reminiscences. But only on my most recent reading of Ulysses did I discover, in the middle of the long and intricate mock-Shakespeare scene at the National Library, the line 'Go to! You spent most of it in Georgina Johnson's bed, clergyman's daughter.' So now I think Orwell quarried his title from there, too.
Christopher HitchensMots clés literary-criticism literature influence james-joyce george-orwell a-clergyman-s-daughter trafalgar-square ulysses-novel
Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him.
Christopher HitchensMots clés intellectuals marxism leon-trotsky trotskyism
I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.
Christopher HitchensMots clés time death french english-language
There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.
Christopher HitchensMots clés progress argument confrontation
Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.
Christopher HitchensI don't mind admitting that I, too, have watched Hilton undergoing the sexual act. I phrase it as crudely as that because it was one of the least erotic such sequences I have ever seen. She seemed to know what was expected of her and to manifest some hard-won expertise, but I could almost have believed that she was drugged. At no point did her facial expression match even the simulacrum of lovemaking.
Christopher HitchensMots clés sex eroticism pornography paris-hilton 1-night-in-paris celebrity-sex-tapes
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