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> [You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tommy-mccarthy/you-can-t-change-your-life-this-mode-in-literature-goes-against-the/)

Tommy McCarthy

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## Other authors on Bumper

## More by Tommy McCarthy

> [You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tommy-mccarthy/you-can-t-change-your-life-this-mode-in-literature-goes-against-the/)

Tommy McCarthy

> [All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tommy-mccarthy/all-art-is-a-form-of-hacking-it-s-a-kind-of-breeching-open-of-a/)

Tommy McCarthy

> [Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go through art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tommy-mccarthy/publishing-has-gone-very-middlebrow-it-s-turned-its-back-on-legacy-of/)

Tommy McCarthy

> [This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tommy-mccarthy/this-is-how-i-understand-literature-as-a-kind-of-remix-or-echo/)

Tommy McCarthy

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