# Damascus Gate

- Author: [Robert Stone](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-stone.md)
- Quotes: 15
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-stone/damascus-gate

## Quotes

> "Don't laugh at my fantasies," she said. "Not if you want to be in them."

p. 246 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-s-stone/damascus-gate/dont-laugh-at-my-fantasies.md)

> And that was it, he thought. It was all a series of rooms one never found one's way out of. You had to be content with that, or die, or go completely crazy.

p. 249 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-s-stone/damascus-gate/and-that-was.md)

> "They don't worry too much if they get the wrong man," Ernest said. "They reckon whoever they get is probably guilty of something. Or would have been eventually. And if he didn't do anything, he probably wanted to."

p. 361 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-s-stone/damascus-gate/they-dont-worry.md)

> "Don't go alone to lonely places."

p. 358 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-s-stone/damascus-gate/dont-go-alone.md)

> He kept not looking at her. This, Sonia had come to realize, usually meant something, though it was often difficult to decide what. Shyness, morbid hypersensitivity and homicidal racism could all assume the same aspect.

p. 302 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-s-stone/damascus-gate/he-kept-not.md)

> Everyone loses everything in the end.

p. 500 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-s-stone/damascus-gate/everyone-loses-everything.md)

> "The fact is," Nuala said, "we're in different situations. For each of us it's different."

p. 325 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-s-stone/damascus-gate/the-fact-is-nuala.md)

> "Lately we seem to get into arguments about what the country's about."
>
> "I thought that was the national pastime."
>
> "It is," Ernest said.

p. 363 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-s-stone/damascus-gate/lately-we-seem.md)

> "Over and over our plans foundered on human nature. On the mediocrity of human nature that betrays its better self, its best ideals, that is unworthy of itself everywhere.
>
> "Shocking, the mediocrity of everything - is it not?"

p. 232 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-s-stone/damascus-gate/over-and-over.md)

> Discretion came hard to Lucas, who tended to think slowly and aloud, but it was time to try a little harder.

p. 341 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-s-stone/damascus-gate/discretion-came-hard.md)

> "It can't be an easy thing," Lucas said, "to make a country. It's tough enough to make a café. Or to make one be the way you imagined it. Unless you only let certain people in and keep the rest out."

p. 363 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-s-stone/damascus-gate/it-cant-be-an-easy.md)

> "And stay away from the wrong people."
>
> "You never know who's who," Lucas said.

p. 359 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-s-stone/damascus-gate/and-stay-away.md)

> One wore a brown army-style sweater, extensively darned and full of holes. The darning was old and unraveling; it looked as if someone had once cared enough to repair his sweaters and then just given up.

p. 305 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-s-stone/damascus-gate/one-wore-a-brown.md)

> "Believe only what you know," he said.

p. 118 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-s-stone/damascus-gate/believe-only-what.md)

> "I know that in the United States people are what they choose to be," he said.

p. 115 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-s-stone/damascus-gate/i-know-that.md)