“It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I resolutely refuse to believe that the state of Edward's health had anything to do with this, and I don't say this… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I certainly didn't concur with Edward on everything, but I was damned if I would hear him abused without saying a word.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I was to grow used to hearing, around New York, the annoying way in which people would say: 'Edward Said, such a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He was so much the picture of different kinds of assimilation that it was almost a case of multiple personalities.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings , and I was always on my… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forth—that I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“he says I am from there, I am from here, but I am neither there nor here. I have two names which… — Mahmoud Darwish's farwell to Edward Said Copy Share Image
“Inevitably came the time when he angrily repudiated his former paladin Yasser Arafat. In fact, he described him to me as 'the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Most people are principally aware of one culture, one setting, one home;exiles are are aware of at least two, and this plurality… — Kobena Mercer Copy Share Image
“Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary he made about the conflict… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Hitherto, the Palestinians had been relatively immune to this Allahu Akhbar style. I thought this was a hugely retrograde development. I said… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old friends… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Edward genially enough did not dis agree with what I said, but he didn't seem to admit my point, either. I wanted… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Arab nationalism in its traditional form was the way in which secular Arab Christians like Edward had found and kept a place… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Then all at once our personal and political quarrels were made very abruptly to converge. In the special edition of the London… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Not long ago, having expressed some disagreements in print with an old comrade of long standing, I was sent a response that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had—not unlike Isaiah Berlin—often felt himself ungainly… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
