Anthony Shadid famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.
I think people should be consumers of journalism.
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.
We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen ... infectious.
Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.

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