• Schmuppes
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    2 months ago

    We all do. He was not a humble man, but a sharp one.

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      2 months ago

      On Falwell: “If you gave his corpse an enema, you could bury him in a matchbox.”

      The single quote of Hitchens I remember best. And the gnashing of teeth by the other assholes on the show with him when he tore Falwell apart at the announcement of his death

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      It’s like he was made for the cameras and microphones, they loved and flattered him, kept him compelling even at his most hungover and disgruntled.