Michael Herr Quotes

...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.

— Michael Herr on dispatches
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All the wrong people remember Vietnam.
I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.

— Michael Herr on forget
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About Michael Herr

Name	Michael Herr
Quotes	2 quotations
Nationality	American
Profession	Journalist
Birthday	October 16
About	Writer and former war correspondent, best known as the author of Dispatches (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire magazine (1967–1969) during the Vietnam War. The book was called the best "to have been written about the Vietnam War" by The New York Times Book Review; novelist John le Carré called it "the best book I have ever read on men and war in our time.
Top topics	years, people, vietnam, wrong, indochina