David Shields Quotes
All human beings have bodies. All bodies are mortal. Yours, too, is one of these bodies.
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I put pressure on myself all the time. I felt it so much with 'Sax,' but I had to just let go and enjoy it.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
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I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
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September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
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I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
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If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'
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Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.
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Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
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Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.
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But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.
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What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
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My mom went to that same doctor and got a butt lift. It's a little too lifted, I think, alright. Now every time she farts only dogs can hear it.
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He is not mad in the least. He's a very astute person, a clever person.
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Boarding school is a wicked thing.
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For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.
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Music is not my business, communication is; and so I have, through my life, tried to communicate through music.
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I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision.
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There was simply this bullying, reduction of 25 percent, which most of us in the community was malicious, and petty, and the sort of thing that most of grew out of a long time ago.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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All human beings have bodies. All bodies are mortal. Yours, too, is one of these bodies.
