I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sen…

Christopher Hitchens
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I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. ✨ Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left, p.5298, NYU Press
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I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. ✨ Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left, p.5298, NYU Press

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