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The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.
– Christopher Hitchens

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  17. A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can’t make old friends. – Christopher Hitchens
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