David Shields Quotes
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The ruling ethos of Seattle is forlorn apology for our animal impulses.
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I'm a sucker for sports movies.
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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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Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.
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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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We judge athletes as if we all don't have trouble performing our various duties from time to time.
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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 only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.
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The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.
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I disagree with everything John Updike has ever said.
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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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I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.
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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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Your basic, well-made novel by Ian McEwan or Jonathan Franzen just bores me silly.