Christopher Hitchens Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011
Birthday: April 13
Death: December 15
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.
source: Christopher Hitchens (2014). “Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere”, p.180, Atlantic Books Ltd
topic: Sardonic
