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In the case of the Web, each of us has slightly more access to a mass audience - a few more people slide through the door - but Facebook is finally a crude, personal multimedia conglomerate machine, personal nation-state machine, reality-show machine. New gadgets alter social patterns, new media eclipse old ones, but the pyramid never goes away.

~David Shields

Topics: Access Alter Audience Away Case Crude Door Each Eclipse Facebook Few Finally Gadgets Goes Machine Mass Media More More People Multimedia Never New New Media Old Patterns People Personal Pyramid Slide Slightly Social Through Us Web

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When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.

~David Shields

Topics: Boston Cities City Culture Feel New New York New York City Something Surrounded York You

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Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.

~David Shields

Topics: Best Candid Confrontation Deeper Existence Honesty Honesty Is Liberating Only Out Policy The Best Policy Way

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I'm very fond of this phrase: 'Collage is not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.' If you put together the pieces in a really powerful way, I think you'll let a thousand discrepancies bloom.

~David Shields

Topics: Bloom Collage Disabled Fond Phrase Pieces Powerful Put Really Refuge Think Thousand Together Very Way You I Think

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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.

~David Shields

Topics: Anthem Books Danger Decades French Girl Henry Hip Hip Hop Hop Ice Look Mouse National National Anthem Passages Sampling Shakespeare Talk Vanilla Whose William

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I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.

~David Shields

Topics: Bee Creating Just Little Mini Projects Selfish Totally Worker

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I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and especially transformation.

~David Shields

Topics: Also Believe Copyright Domain Fair Limited Public Public Domain Transformation Use Within I Believe I Believe In

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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.'

~David Shields

Topics: Any Born Carnival Come Gabriel Like People Putting Really Someone Story Storytellers Tell Tent Think Who Without You I Think T

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I'm not super-polite or civil - I try to be civil, but I'm not into Seattle's niceties, and I'm not hugely wired into Seattle's natural beauty.

~David Shields

Topics: Beauty Civil Hugely Natural Natural Beauty Seattle Try Wired

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

~David Shields

Topics: Anyone Essay Idea Investigation Life Love Really

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 22nd, 1956

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