Christopher Hitchens Quotes

His Importance To The Century Just Past, And Therefore His Status As A Figure In History As Well As In Literature, Derives From The Extraordinary Salience Of The Subjects He 'took On,' And Stayed With, And Never Abandoned. As A Consequence, We Commonly Use The Term 'Orwellian' In One Of Two Ways. To Describe A State Of Affairs As 'Orwellian' Is To Imply Crushing Tyranny And Fear And Conformism. To Describe A Piece Of Writing As 'Orwellian' Is To Recognize That Human Resistance To These Terrors Is Unquenchable. Not Bad For One Short Lifetime.

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