Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).
Weitere Zitate von Christopher Hitchens
Zum Autor"I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated."
"The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?"
"What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime."
"I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor."
"The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle."
"It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse."