Stephen Fry & Friends on the Life of Christopher Hitchens

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  @Intelligence-Squared · 1 year ago · pinned

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  @theomegaconcern9564 · 7 years ago

  Two of the greatest things YouTube has enlightened me to is:<br><br>1. How to fix my backyard fence<br>2. Christopher Hitchens

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  @beratnabodhi · 2 years ago

  One day back in 2005, I was sitting in a bar in the Bluegrass Airport in Lexington Kentucky when someone sat down at the bar next to me and ordered a Johnny Walker Black. I turned to find myself sitting next to Christopher Hitchens. I had just read The Trials of Henry Kissinger, and even though he had just finished a lecture at the University of Kentucky on the book, he was still kind enough to engage me on the topic. I got to sit with him for a little less than an hour till our flight. We were on the same flight to Atlanta, but separated and I didn&apos;t want to pester him. It was one of the coolest conversations I&apos;ve ever had. At the time I was a Labor organizer for the Teamsters and he commended my chosen profession and thanked me for it.

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  @jennifermorris7986 · 4 years ago

  &quot;There is still in this world...a furious appetite for ideas, knowledge, for thought and for the questioning of authority.&quot; &nbsp;May there always be Frys and Dawkins and Hitchens in our midst to lead the way.

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  @Chade_Fallstar · 8 years ago

  &quot;A sumptously exquisite use of language&quot; - Stephen Fry, one of the few people I would trust to accurately describe Hitch&apos;s command of the English language. Perfect.

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  @colincooke5136 · 7 years ago

  8 years ago and we&apos;re all still mourning. Miss Hitch so much.

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  @SHKEiré · 9 years ago

  What I would give to hear Christopher&apos;s commentary on the current social and political climate.

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  @paulk2257 · 4 years ago

  Few people can hold a candle to the oratory skills of Christopher Hitchens. His encyclopaedic knowledge, wit, linguistic majesty and critical thinking are an awe to behold. I can never tire of listening to him speak, and much like Carl Sagan, I will forever mourn that we can never hear more.

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  @ChipArgyle · 12 years ago

  So nice to see people do something like this for someone <i>before</i> they died, instead of just delivering a eulogy as per the norm. &nbsp;We should do this more often for our loved ones, especially in those circumstances when we know they have little time left yet would still be able to appreciate it.

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  @kirkhope0205 · 5 years ago

  Imagine finding Christopher Hitchens about 3 years ago, bringing through all of the content you could ever find of him, and then seeing is abrupt down word spiral that is cancer. It was heartbreaking, but still, several years after his death, you can find his immortal intellect being distributed, without ads in most cases, freely on the internet. Long Live!

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  @hla5560650 · 10 years ago

  Christopher, Richard and Stephen... Such individuals are irreplaceable.. &nbsp;Huge love and respect from Baghdad

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  @ani4680 · 10 years ago

  Hitchens&apos; works have changed a lot of lives, mine is one of them. He&apos;s sorely missed. Love, from Bombay.

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