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December 16, 2011 10:29 am

“He woke up every morning, pinching his chubby little flanks and thinking, I”ve got away with it again.’” Hitchens on Jerry Falwell, upon his death.  And his best, “If you gave [Jerry Falwell] an enema, you could bury him in a matchbox.”  Just merciless. 

(Source: andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com)

6:47 am
"One of our lunches, at Café Milano, the Rick’s Café of Washington, began at 1 P.M., and ended at 11:30 P.M. At about nine o’clock (though my memory is somewhat hazy), he said, “Should we order more food?” I somehow crawled home, where I remained under medical supervision for several weeks, packed in ice with a morphine drip. Christopher probably went home that night and wrote a biography of Orwell. His stamina was as epic as his erudition and wit."

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Christopher Buckley on his friendship with late, great Christopher Hitchens.  Say what you will about him, but he was fearless. 

(Source: newyorker.com)