{"id":35565,"date":"2022-02-18T07:34:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T07:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beautiful-quotes.org\/quote-from-christopher-hitchens-mortality\/"},"modified":"2022-02-18T07:34:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T07:34:27","slug":"quote-from-christopher-hitchens-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beautiful-quotes.org\/quote-from-christopher-hitchens-mortality\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote from Christopher Hitchens, Mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In one way, I suppose, I have been &#8220;in denial&#8221; for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can&#8217;t see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it&#8217;s all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Christopher Hitchens, Mortality\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one way, I suppose, I have been &#8220;in denial&#8221; for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. 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