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If Hitchens didn't exist, we wouldn't be able to invent him.
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Ian McEwan, as quoted in "Hitch-22: A Memoir" at ebook3000.com (26 June 2010)

 

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When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution... Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

 

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The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.

 

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The universe may
be as great as they say.
But it wouldn't be missed
if it didn't exist.

 

Piet Hein

 

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them & invent others that (one is fairly sure) don't exist — or exist in a less measure.

 

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Hitchens identified himself for many years as the heir to me ... unfortunately, for him, I didn't die.

 

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