My father understood the orchestra so well that he never overwrote anything. He always got the most he could from the least amount of writing.


Christopher Riddle

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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
I'm crepuscular.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infec...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg s...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim under...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being hu...
CHRISTOPHER LEACH
When I went back to Iraq again, after the liberation was complete, I was myself engaged on a sort of...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien', '...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Infinite riches in a little room.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
CHRISTOPHER QUILL
Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place,...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country whe...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER
Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtes...
CHRISTOPHER RICKS
Only the sinner has a right to preach.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you your...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so 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