# Quote — Christopher Hitchens, And Yet

> Friends, we represent a minority, but Literature is on our side. With so many fine books to be read, so much to be studied and known, there is no need to bore ourselves with this rubbish.

- Author: [Christopher Hitchens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens.md)
- Book: [And Yet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/and-yet.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/and-yet/friends-we-represent

## More from this book

> We are all drowning in filth. When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgment have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone’s thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a “case” with deliberate suppression of his opponent’s point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/and-yet/we-are-all.md)

> Thus we learn again that what people set down day to day is of greater value than what they try to synthesize retrospectively into a grand sweep or theory.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/and-yet/thus-we-learn.md)

> One test of un homme sérieux is that it is possible to learn from him even when one radically disagrees with him.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/and-yet/one-test-of-un-homme.md)