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David Shields Quotes

American - Author | July 22, 1956 -

My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-talkers in the National Basketball Association. He's not really bad. He's only pretend bad - I know that - but he allows me to fantasize about being bad.

Me Basketball Bad Know Pretend Only

We're completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. To me, the moment you compose, you're fictionalising; the moment you remember, you're dreaming. It's ludicrous that we have to pretend that non-fiction has to be real in some absolute sense.

Moment Me Confused Remember You

I really love that idea of the essay as an investigation. That's all anyone's life is.

Life Love Investigation Essay Idea

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

Kitchen Sink Collage Disabled Refuge

Life, in my view, is simple, tragic, and frighteningly beautiful.

Life Beautiful Simple View Tragic

We're all Vanilla Ice. Look at Girl Talk and Danger Mouse. Look at William Burroughs, whose cut-up books antedate hip hop sampling by decades. Shakespeare remixed passages of Holinshed's 'Chronicles' in 'Henry VI.' Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture' embeds the French national anthem.

Girl Ice Look Talk Danger Whose

All art is theft.

You don't think anyone who lives an ordinary life has plenty of trouble and torment to write about?

Life Think You Trouble Write Who

Every writer from Montaigne to William S. Burroughs has pasted and cut from previous work. Every artist, whether it's Warhol or, you know, Dangermouse or whoever.

Work You Artist Know Cut Writer

I think there are people who are born storytellers. I think of someone like T. C. Boyle or Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I think really, without putting any pejorative on it, they're like carnival barkers, 'Come into the tent, and I'll tell you this story.'

People Story Think Someone You Born

I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

Life Me Feel Distance Know Why

I hope readers will think that 'The Thing About Life' is beautifully patterned, a tapestry.

Life Hope Think Will About Readers

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