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All art is theft.

~David Shields

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During Ronald Reagan's administration, '60 Minutes' ran a segment about the difference between Reagan's rhetoric and Reagan's actions. The show thought it had produced a hard-hitting piece; Reagan's team called up '60 Minutes' to thank them for the 15-minute commercial.

~David Shields

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The difference between kitties and humans is that we are aware of our mortal condition, and the burden of consciousness is to evoke and embody and explore the coordinates of our condition.

~David Shields

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

~David Shields

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The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.

~David Shields

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I worry that I am not really a person anymore: I'm more of just a writing machine. I wonder what that has done to either my life and or my art.

~David Shields

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In a way, it's taken me 25 years to acknowledge that I am from the West Coast. I was always sort of pretending I was bicoastal or that I really belonged on the East Coast.

~David Shields

Topics: Acknowledge Always Am Belonged Coast East East Coast Me Pretending Really Sort Taken Way West West Coast Years I Am

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Seattle is still more Caucasian than most medium-sized cities. The sort of psychosexual politics of white fandom in context of black athletes who are also both very rich and slightly angry is just, to me, bottomlessly fascinating.

~David Shields

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You could easily do a book of Marshawn Lynch's quotes, which have a quite serious political pushback. I think he's really amazing.

~David Shields

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Considering the relatively brief careers of professional athletes, teenagers who are good enough to play at the highest level should be able to exploit that market.

~David Shields

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 22nd, 1956

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