Christopher Hitchens, Arguably: Selected Essays

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"It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile."

Christopher Hitchens, Arguably: Selected Essays

"The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity."

Christopher Hitchens, Arguably: Selected Essays

"Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery."

Christopher Hitchens, Arguably: Selected Essays

"And how easy it is to recognize the revenant shapes that the old unchanging enemies—racism, leader worship, superstition—assume when they reappear amongst us (often bodyguarded by their new apologists)."

Christopher Hitchens, Arguably: Selected Essays