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much attention. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and
earning. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to spend your life
in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is o... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.... CHRISTOPHER MOORE I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them. CHRISTOPHER MOORE One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hun... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, the... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and supers... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good fo... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affec... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You wi... CHRISTOPHER PIKE Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. CHRISTOPHER PIKE If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in. CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shal... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Without fear there cannot be courage. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI