"Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic,……" — Janine di Giovanni
"Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars."
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35 Quotes by Janine di Giovanni
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Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.
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My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a…
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When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and…
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My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.
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I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. I was…
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In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.
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I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.
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I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in…
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I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.
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Africa is a very dangerous place.
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Lake Como has always been a magnet for the elite.
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My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her…
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