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Mortality

Mortality
Christopher Hitchens

Mortality is a 2012, posthumously published book by Anglo-American writer Christopher Hitchens, comprising seven essays which first appeared in Vanity Fair concerning his struggle with oesophageal cancer, with which he was diagnosed during his 2010 book tour and which killed him in December 2011. An eighth chapter consisting of unfinished "fragmentary jottings," a foreword by Graydon Carter, Hitchens' Vanity Fair editor and an afterword by Carol Blue, Hitchens' widow, are also included in the publication.

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“For me, to remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off: the ones that made the sacrifice of the following day a trivial one.”

Christopher Hitchens Mortality

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“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?”

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Source: 2010s, 2011, Mortality (2012)

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“The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.”

Christopher Hitchens Mortality

Source: Mortality

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“It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory”

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Source: Mortality

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“If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.”

Christopher Hitchens Mortality

Source: 2010s, 2011, Mortality (2012), p. 91.

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“Until you have done something for humanity,” wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, “you should be ashamed to die.”

Christopher Hitchens Mortality

Source: Mortality

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“A good conversation is the only human equivalent: the realizing that decent points are being made and understood, that irony is in play, and elaboration, and that a dull and obvious remark would be almost physically hurtful.”

Christopher Hitchens Mortality

Source: Mortality

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