I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique. - David Shields - Quotesmemo.com

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David Shields

I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

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Anything processed by memory is fiction.

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Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

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My medium is prose, not the novel.

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

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He looks like he needs worming.

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The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.

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I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option.

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John Boyle O'Reilly

John Boyle O'Reilly

For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.

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