Thomas M. Cirignano  - Quotes

 Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained. 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Plus, of course, friendship 

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George Bernard Shaw  - Quotes

 Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it. 

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