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When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.

~David Shields

Topics: Between Book Content Covers Literary Might More Otherwise Perceived Substance

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We hunger for connection to a larger community.

~David Shields

Topics: Community Connection Hunger Larger

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The originating sin of America is slavery, for which reparations should be paid and will never be paid; as a result, mini-reparations are paid daily, and the NBA remains, for me, reparations theater.

~David Shields

Topics: America Daily Me Nba Never Paid Remains Reparations Result Should Sin Slavery Theater Which Will

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Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports.

~David Shields

Topics: American American Society Discuss Function Historical Nba Place Possibly Pretends Questions Realm Society Solve Solved Sports Where Within

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I try to be as honest as I possibly can about the contradictions within my own heart and thereby get to something 'true' and revealing and important about contemporary American culture and human nature.

~David Shields

Topics: About American American Culture Contemporary Contradictions Culture Get Heart Honest Human Human Nature Important My Own Nature Own Possibly Revealing Something Thereby True Try Within

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Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

~David Shields

Topics: Accessible Easily Reality Straightforward

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New artists, it seems to me, have to learn the mechanics of computing/programming and - possessing a vision unhumbled by technology - use them to disassemble/recreate the Web.

~David Shields

Topics: Artists Learn Me Mechanics New Possessing Seems Technology Them Use Vision Web

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Immanence, or complicity, allows the writer to be a kind of shock absorber of the culture: to reflect back its 'whatness,' refracted through the sensibility of his consciousness.

~David Shields

Topics: Back Complicity Consciousness Culture His Kind Reflect Sensibility Shock Through Writer

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One of my clearest, happiest memories is of myself at fourteen, sitting up in bed, being handed a large glass of warm buttermilk by my mother because I had a sore throat, and she saying how envious she was that I was reading 'The Catcher in the Rye' for the first time.

~David Shields

Topics: Because Bed Being Catcher Catcher In The Rye Clearest Envious First First Time Fourteen Glass Had Handed Happiest How Large Memories Mother Myself Reading Saying She Sitting Sore Throat Time Up Warm

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I began as a fiction writer - I had written three novels in my 20s and 30s. But as my work has gravitated towards literary nonfiction, or lyric essay or poetic essay, whatever you want to call it, I'm constantly beating my head against the wall 'cause I'm teaching a genre that's no longer that exciting to me and that I'm no longer practicing.

~David Shields

Topics: Against Beating Began Call Cause Constantly Essay Exciting Fiction Fiction Writer Genre Had Head Literary Longer Lyric Me Nonfiction Novels Poetic Practicing Teaching Three Towards Wall Want Whatever Work Writer Written You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 22nd, 1956

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