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The influential writer and cultural critic Christopher Hitchens died on Thursday at the age of 62 from complications of cancer of the esophagus. Hitchens confronted his disease in part by writing, bringing the same unsparing insight to his mortality that he had directed at so many other subjects.
-- ONTD/NPR
The intellectual world has become a duller and less literate place. He had at least another ten brilliant years in him. I can feel this loss.
-- ONTD/NPR
The intellectual world has become a duller and less literate place. He had at least another ten brilliant years in him. I can feel this loss.
