Christopher Hitchens: The Fifth Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture

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• MI

  @michellemaria1313 · 3 years ago

  He gave this talk the evening he found out he had cancer. He refused to cancel this or his Daily Show appearance. True pro. 💔

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• TL

  @tl6690 · 4 years ago

  We lost a great man 10 years ago today. You'll never be forgotten.  RIP Hitch!

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• TA

  @taro7438 · 5 years ago

  ...And 10 years later, your words are more pertinent than ever. What a man.

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• RE

  @reillyobrien4372 · 6 years ago

  "There is never a good occasion for keeping your mouth shut."-Christopher Hitchens

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• MA

  @markmacdonald7955 · 5 years ago

  "If the print media die, and the internet fails to replace them, what then?" - What a prescient goddamn question.

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• GA

  @ganderson5104 · 11 years ago

  Salman Rushdie: "The great gift my parents gave me was to be non-religious."  My father was a difficult man who I frequently disagreed with, but one gift he gave me was to question religious beliefs. He gave me the gift of skepticism, and I cherish it.

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• MA

  @Mackerdaymia · 6 years ago

  &quot;It opens us up to an era of terrible relativism where everyone&apos;s opinion is as good as anyone else&apos;s; where you don&apos;t have to <b>earn</b> any credibility. Pretty soon you&apos;d have not just your own opinions, but your own choice of facts; there wouldn&apos;t be a common stock of reference.&quot;<br><br>So prescient from Hitch. 10+ years later we live in this exact world.

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• AD

  @adriankristoffersen3121 · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBwDmepta7g&amp;t=3498">58:18</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBwDmepta7g&amp;t=3522">58:42</a> <br>Hitch saw &apos;fake news&apos; and &apos;alternate facts&apos; coming.

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• JM

  @JMRuggiero · 1 year ago

  These 2 are/were so brilliant! The world needs more Hitch. Rip 🪦 our hero

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• PI

  @PinkoPapist89 · 11 years ago

  Some people wish John Lennon were alive to comment on present events. For me it will always be Hitch.

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• WH

  @WheelsofSteal · 5 years ago

  @ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBwDmepta7g&amp;t=3500">58:20</a>. Christopher pulls out his crystal ball and nails down exactly the current state of social society is now and has been. Expressed perfectly actually. Gifts from the past. &nbsp;Thank you Christopher.

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• TU

  @turtferguson4831 · 4 years ago

  I wish we could hear Christopher&apos;s reaction to the recent attack on Rushdie

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