Geoffrey Ward quotes

Geoffrey Ward quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Journalism is merely history's first draft.”
-- Geoffrey Ward

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“History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.”
-- Geoffrey Ward

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“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”
“We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.”
“A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.”

Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”
“From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.3, Da Capo Press
“First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.”
“If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.”
“I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.”
“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 is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.”

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

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