Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Much Of The Attraction Of The Cult Has To Do With The Grace Of An Early And Romantic Death. George Orwell Once Observed That If Napoleon Bonaparte Had Been Cut Down By A Musket Ball As He Entered Moscow, He Would Have Been Remembered As The Greatest General Since Alexander. And Not Only Did Guevara Die Before His Ideals Did, He Died In Such A Manner As To Inspire Something Akin To Superstition. He Rode Among The Poor Of The Altiplano On A Donkey. He Repeatedly Foresaw And Predicted The Circumstances Of His Own Death. He Was Spurned And Betrayed By Those He Claimed To Set Free. He Was By Calling A Healer Of The Sick. The Photographs Of His Corpse, Bearded And Half-naked And Lacerated, Make An Irresistible Comparison With Paintings Of The Deposition From Calvary. There Is A Mystery About His Last Resting Place. Alleged Relics Are In Circulation. There Have Even Been Sightings ... .

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