"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."

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Source : Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.3, Basic Books

Christopher Hitchens

#Lying Quotes #Independent Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Music gets inside you, music captures you. Music becomes your heartbeat. Itâ€™s a drug and makes you feel whatever the songâ€™s about.”
“I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it.”
“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.”
“[on his use of tracking shots throughout his 50-year career] There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“You get one pass at life. Thatâ€™s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.”
“It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients.”
“The moon shines for you.”
“We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.”

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