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David Shields Quotes
Birthday: | July 22, 1956 |
Field of Study: | Fix https://quotecatalog.com/communicator/tyler-knott-gregson |
Nationality: | American, United States Of America |
Occupations: | Teacher, Novelist, Essayist, Ice Hockey Player |
Profesisonal Interests: | Literary Collage, Lyric Essay, Personal Essay, Book-length Essay, Boundary-Jumping Work, Experimental Writing, J.D Salinger, Creative Writing |
Total quotes: 46
David Shields
BirthnameBirthday: July 22, 1956
Field of Study: Fix https://quotecatalog.com/communicator/tyler-knott-gregson
Nationality: American, United States Of America
Occupations: Teacher, Novelist, Essayist, Ice Hockey Player
Profesisonal Interests: Literary Collage, Lyric Essay, Personal Essay, Book-length Essay, Boundary-Jumping Work, Experimental Writing, J.D Salinger, Creative Writing
Total quotes: 46
“The Corrections, say: I couldn't read that book if my life depended on it. It might be a 'good' novel or it might be a 'bad' novel, but something has happened to my imagination, which can no longer yield to the earnest embrace of novelistic form. ”
Tagged:
Jonathan Franzen, Novels
“Why would someone for whom talking was torture want to talk all the time before thousands of Athenians? Because otherwise he’d have drowned himself at high tide. My sister—so shy, so sincere—once wanted to be an actress. The best jazz drummer I’ve ever heard had only one arm. We all choose a calling that’s the most radical contradiction of ourselves.”
Tagged:
Identity, Why We Want What We Want
“Is race on my brain, and am I screwed up? Or is it on everyone else’s brain, and am I just taking notes? No one ever acknowledges the true subject of our discussions; it can never get expressed directly, it simply can’t be, won’t be, isn’t allowed to be talked about openly, and so it comes out in a thousand indirect inflections.”
Tagged:
Race, Repression
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