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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-shadid/in-any-kind-of-conflict-you-have-a-certain-dehumanization-that-comes/)

[Anthony Shadid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-shadid/)

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## More by Anthony Shadid

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-shadid/on-the-flip-side-i-enjoy-covering-the-arab-world-i-ve-spent-my-entire/)

[Anthony Shadid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-shadid/)

> [Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-shadid/cultures-that-may-seem-as-durable-as-stone-can-break-like-glass/)

[Anthony Shadid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-shadid/)

> [“After life is bent, torn, exploded, there are shattered pieces that do not heal for years, if at all. What is left are scars…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-shadid/after-life-is-bent-torn-exploded-there-are-shattered-pieces-that-do/)

[Anthony Shadid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-shadid/)

> [The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-shadid/the-best-journalism-is-sometimes-about-footnotes-when-we-write-small/)

[Anthony Shadid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-shadid/)

> [“the sight of militiamen sipping coffee at Starbucks, their rocket-propelled grenades resting in chairs in a distinctly Lebanese vision of globalization.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-shadid/the-sight-of-militiamen-sipping-coffee-at-starbucks-their-rocket/)

[Anthony Shadid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-shadid/)

> [Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-shadid/journalism-is-always-the-art-of-the-incomplete-you-get-bits-and-pieces/)

[Anthony Shadid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-shadid/)

> [I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-shadid/i-don-t-think-there-s-any-story-worth-dying-for-but-i-do-think-there/)

[Anthony Shadid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-shadid/)

> [“hospitality, cosmopolitanism, and tolerance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-shadid/hospitality-cosmopolitanism-and-tolerance/)

[Anthony Shadid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-shadid/)

> [I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-shadid/i-had-a-great-childhood-i-think-writers-are-always-better-off-when/)

[Anthony Shadid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-shadid/)

> [The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-shadid/the-americans-invaded-a-country-without-understanding-what-eight/)

[Anthony Shadid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-shadid/)

> [“Subtle and coy, the cemento at Maalouf's did not speak of war, or frontiers, and the spaces they narrowed, but, rather, grandeur. The tiles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-shadid/subtle-and-coy-the-cemento-at-maalouf-s-did-not-speak-of-war-or/)

[Anthony Shadid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-shadid/)

> [The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-shadid/the-one-thing-that-shaped-my-life-was-when-i-was-15-or-16-i-knew-i/)

[Anthony Shadid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-shadid/)

> [“I should be in Beirut, I thought, working as a journalist, but another part of me was so wary of that old life of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-shadid/i-should-be-in-beirut-i-thought-working-as-a-journalist-but-another/)

[Anthony Shadid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-shadid/)

> [“Sometimes it is better to imagine the past than to remember it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-shadid/sometimes-it-is-better-to-imagine-the-past-than-to-remember-it/)

[Anthony Shadid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-shadid/)

> [“Arabic also has a far greater facility to communicate sarcasm, and it can be employed precisely, or with pitch-perfect irony.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-shadid/arabic-also-has-a-far-greater-facility-to-communicate-sarcasm-and-it/)

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