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Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any,

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A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.

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Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals to you, discard the rest. Such an act of editorship is bound to reflect something of the individual doing the editing: a plaster cast of an aesthetic-not the actual thing, but the imprint of it.

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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.

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Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

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If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress.

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You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.

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David Shields

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Born: July 22, 1956 (age 68)
Bio: David Shields is an American author of fiction and nonfiction.
Known for:
  1. Reality Hunger (2010)
  2. How Literature Saved My Life (2004)
  3. Salinger (2013)

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