David Shields Quotes
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I'm trying to use myself and my own flawedness as a metaphor for general human experience. I'm trying to 'stand next to' a subject, whether it's Bobby Knight or Vince Carter, and use that subject to meditate on both him and me.
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The individual has now risen to the level of a mini-government or mini-corporation. Via YouTube and Twitter, each of us is our own mini-network.
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I disagree with everything John Updike has ever said.
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Seattle's not a particularly Jewish city, and I'm not in any way religious. Since I've been here, I've been a fairly productive, even obsessively productive, writer.
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I'm obviously aware that most people don't agree with me, that people like to escape into a coherent world that is apart from their own.
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I'm a sucker for sports movies.
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I like art with a visible string to the world.
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I felt like I was definitely seeing something - the falsely gorgeous images of war, painted, almost invariably, in 'Times' combat photos.
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The ruling ethos of Seattle is forlorn apology for our animal impulses.
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I like some of Annie Proulx, some of those very brief stories of hers. And I love J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. I like Geoff Dyer. I also liked W. G. Sebald, especially his book 'The Emigrants'.
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Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.
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The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.
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I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.
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The only rule is never be bored.