“I cite too the ordinary fears of mortality the inspection of a fast-growing mole on the side of the nose blood in… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Happiness consists of living in the dailiness of life and not knowing how happy you are. True happiness comes of not knowing… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“A stydy today of the products of the animated cartoon industry of the twenties, thirties and forties would yield the following theology:… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“I’ve had very little experience in my life. In fact, I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Ever since this day I have dreamt sometimes... I, a street rat in my soul, dream even now... that if it were… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“I watched bulls bred to cows, watched mares foal, I saw life come from the egg and the multiplicative wonders of mudholes… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“The story was clearly over, as in juggling when the ball you throw up finds the moment to come down, hesitates as… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“His life was absurd. He went all over the world accepting all kinds of bondage and escaping. He was roped to a… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we all reappear, perhaps all our lives are impositions one on another.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Many historians have noted an interesting phenomenon in American life in the years immediately after a war. In the councils of government… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“I am thus led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“I cite too the ordinary fears of mortality the inspection of a fast-growing mole on the side of the nose blood in the stool… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“And what if neutrinos in their uncountable multitudinous dark-matteredness gravitationally directing the universe . . . are the souls of the dead?” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“It was as if God had decreed this characterless engagement of brainless forces as his answer to the human presumption.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Treason the only crime defined in the Constitution. Tyranny as under the Stuart and Tudor kings characterized by the elimination of political dissent under… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“I remember holding her in my arms and absolving God of meaninglessness.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Emily supposed the modern world was fortunate in the progress of science. But she could not help but feel at this moment the impropriety… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Father looked at her and she was beautiful in the way she had been as a girl. He did not realize the pleasure he… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Happiness consists of living in the dailiness of life and not knowing how happy you are. True happiness comes of not knowing you're happy.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Grandmamma had been the last connection to our past. I had understood her as some referent moral authority to whom we paid no heed,… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“I asked this question: How can I think about my brain when it’s my brain doing the thinking? So is this brain pretending to… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you can't tell exactly what any of them are.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
