"Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God."

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Source : "Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011: In Memoriam" by Graydon Carter, www.vanityfair.com. December 2011.

Graydon Carter

#Dare Quotes #Wit Quotes #Troublemaker Quotes

“Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?”
“I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It's the occasion that makes the revolution.”
“A thought is truly sought only if it has got, in latent or potent form, the strength of 'WE' which sounds as 'V' that stands for 'VICTORY', and so it reflects the power of a true leader who as writer or speaker involves everyone alike at the same level.”
“No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.”
“I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know itcan be done. I know the impossible can become possible.”
“Regret is… an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today.”

Source : Gerald Lawson Sittser, Jerry L. Sittser (1998). “A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss”, p.84, Zondervan
“It would be right to state that, with the successful flight of the XR-4 in the summer of 1942, the helicopter became a reality in the United States.”

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