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The Europeans hate us because we’ve retired to live inside our advertisements, like hermits going into caves to contemplate. We sleep in symbolic bedrooms, eat symbolic meals, are symbolically entertained- and that terrifies them, that fills them with fury and loathing because they can never understand it.


Christopher Isherwood

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CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS They were different colors: the right one blue, the left green. And her face in the light of the can...
NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-styl...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our und...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for gra...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
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