Christopher Hitchens Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011
Birthday: April 13
Death: December 15
To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.
source: "Hitch-22: A Memoir". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010. 
topic: Yeats, Being A Dad, Thoughts Of Death, Serfs
