Sunday, December 8, 2013

Thought for the Day

Sometimes it is better to imagine the past
than to remember it.
~ Anthony Shadid
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Quoted from Anthony Shadid's beautifully written House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012; Reprint 2013; p. 298) Read an excerpt.

Anthony Shadid (1968-2012), Foreign Correspondent, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Memoirist

Anthony Shadid Page at Democracy Now!

Rick Gladstone, "At Work in Syria, Times Correspondent Dies", The New York Times, February 16, 2012

Michael Hastings, "In Memoriam: Anthony Shadid", Rolling Stone, February 18, 2012

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3 comments:

  1. KathleenDecember 8, 2013 at 10:59 AM

    Ah, yes. This connects, too, for me, to The Submission, a book I read recently, by Amy Waldman.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 8, 2013 at 11:28 AM

    bits and pieces
    of the past
    floating
    on the river
    they catch up
    to us
    and speed by

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  3. S. EtoleDecember 15, 2013 at 7:12 AM

    I wonder if the two don't often go hand in hand.

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