February 2012
23 posts
Lady Bracknell: Do you smoke?
Jack: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke
Lady Bracknell: I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is.
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Some possible Brit Award categories for next year
greatestlight-greatestshade:
Best mass marketing performance by a record label
Best performance on an Argos guitar
Best standard banter by a Male Artist
Award for the sickest pair of Chinos Sponsored by Topshop
Best DROP! by a Dubstep artist
Best Totes Indie artist
Most Outstanding Contribution to the cultural stagnation of Britain
“When you’ve sealed up your bedroom doors and you’ve blackened your windows, and...”
– Morrissey
“Nobody has yet been excommunicated for the rape and torture of children, but...”
– Christopher Hitchens [The Great Catholic Cover-Up, Slate]
Memorize
Stephen Colbert: If I have a lot of facts in my head, if I can absorb a lot of facts, am I a scientist?
Neil deGrasse Tyson: No. No, you’re a fact-memorizer. In fact our academic system rewards people who know a lot of stuff, and generally we call those people smart. But at the end of the day, who do you want: the person who can figure stuff out that they’ve never seen before, or the person who can rattle off a bunch of facts? At the end of the day, I want the person who can figure stuff out.
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“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Interviewer: What would you say is the gayest thing about you?
Stephen Fry: Um, my preference for men and having sex with them rather than women in the end must be it.
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he...”
– Dead Poets Society
“What’s the point of an ineffable deity if he can be so readily comprehended by...”
– Christopher Hitchens [The Future of an Illusion, Daedalus]
“There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues, but for me they cannot...”
– Christopher Hitchens on antidepressants [Hitch 22 (New York: Twelve, 2010), 342]
January 2012
20 posts
Missing Christopher Hitchens.
“How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities.”
– Christopher Hitchens
“Looking at porn is like lying to Parliament. It used to be wrong but now it’s...”
– Mark Corrigan - Peep Show
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“The Diamond Jubilee will be presented as a moment of national unity and...”
– Diamond Jubilee is celebration of mediocrity by Amol Rajan for The Independent
smythecriminal:
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“The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one...”
– Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22
“Every person wishes to know of the proposals, the learned and the ignorant. The...”
– Filippo Brunelleschi
“I have a problem with religion or anything that says, ‘We have all the answers,’...”
– Daniel Radcliffe
Anonymous asked: Just read your entire tumblr (all 266 pages, because who needs sleep anyway) and I just want to say that you're awesome. Please keep posting these awesome Hitchens quotes (may he rest in peace) and the occasional Smiths song, they make my day. Thanks :-)
“New Year’s resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing,...”
– Charlie Brooker From the Guardian
“The gods that we’ve made are exactly the gods you’d expect to be made by a...”
– Christopher Hitchens, Debate in the University of Waterloo, 2011
December 2011
41 posts
“But it isn’t your life. You’re just watching it. And when you tune in to a...”
– Charlie Brooker (via teaswirls)
“Surely it is the most blameworthy ignorance to believe that one knows what one...”
– Plato, Socrates in Apology
“There is a huge trapdoor waiting to open under anyone who is critical of...”
– Christopher Hitchens