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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.

~David Shields

Topics: Almost Combat Definitely Falsely Felt Gorgeous Images Invariably Like Painted Photos Seeing Something Times War

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I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of art can be measured by the harm spoken of it. If you're not feeling that, then absolutely, why bother?

~David Shields

Topics: Absolutely Afflict Afflicted Always Art Bother Comfort Comfortable Create Feeling Harm Idea Liked Measured Should Spoken Then Trouble Value Why Why Bother Work Writing You

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The 'Times' is understood to be almost the unofficial biographer of the country, in some strange way to be printing a kind of quasi-neutral truth or even, in some people's minds, slightly center-left version of reality.

~David Shields

Topics: Almost Country Even Kind Minds People Printing Reality Slightly Some Strange Strange Way Times Truth Understood Version Way

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Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.

~David Shields

Topics: Against Alive Art Dangerous Most Pick Use Why You Your Yourself

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Stoicism is of no use to me whatsoever. What I'm a big believer in is talking about everything until you're blue in the face.

~David Shields

Topics: About Believer Big Big Believer Blue Everything Face Me Talking Until Use Whatsoever You

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I want work that, possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art, foregrounds the question of how the writer solves being alive.

~David Shields

Topics: Alive Art Being Between How Life Possessing Possible Question Thin Want Work Writer

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Straightforward fiction functions only as more Bubble Wrap, nostalgia, retreat.

~David Shields

Topics: Bubble Fiction Functions More Nostalgia Only Retreat Straightforward Wrap

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The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.

~David Shields

Topics: Authority Fan Only Patient Requirement Surrender

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I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.

~David Shields

Topics: Experience Nonfiction Our Shifting Unstable Want World

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

~David Shields

Topics: About Beautifully Hope Life Readers Tapestry Thing Think Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 22nd, 1956

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