Top Damascus Quotes

Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day that I was born, 13 April 1949, nineteen senior Nazi officials were...

Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day that I was born, 13 April 1949, nineteen senior Nazi officials were...

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: alcohol, alcoholism, andrei gromyko, antisemitism, astrology, astronomy, beijing, birth, birthdays, breastfeeding

So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the or of a friend's child, or in order to have a deba...

Christopher Hitchens

So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the or of a friend's child, or in order to have a deba...

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: annie navasky, antisemitism, arthur miller, atheism, bar and bat mitzvah, best man, budapest, damascus, david rieff, debate

Damascus Definition

(n.) A city of Syria.

Rolf Ekeus came round to my apartment one day and showed me the name of the Iraqi diplomat who had visited the little West African country of Niger: a statelet famous only for its production of yellow...

Christopher Hitchens

Rolf Ekeus came round to my apartment one day and showed me the name of the Iraqi diplomat who had visited the little West African country of Niger: a statelet famous only for its production of yellow...

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: baath party, baathism, baathist iraq, baghdad, bbc, corruption, damascus, diplomacy, george w bush, gordon correa