

“The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima'鈥攖he ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd.
The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: 鈥渁nima鈥濃攖he ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: 鈥渁nima鈥濃攖he ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
― The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
― The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and鈥攕ince there is no other metaphor鈥攁lso the soul.”
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“I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
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