Anthony Shadid Quotes

• In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.

  Anthony Shadid

  Humanity, Important, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

  Anthony Shadid

  Jobs, Bears, Witness

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.

  Anthony Shadid

  Believe, Artist, Glasses

  Anthony Shadid (2012). “House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

  Anthony Shadid

  Writing, Journalism, Sometimes

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• I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

  Anthony Shadid

  Thinking, Childhood, Twisted

  "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

  Anthony Shadid

  Art, Pieces, Journalism

  "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.

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• On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

  Anthony Shadid

  War, Careers, East

  "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.

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