Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between every…

Christopher Hitchens
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Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that. ✨ Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left, p.5204, NYU Press
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