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Alex Shakar

(1968) Novelist United States

18 quotes in 76 categories

Alex Shakar is a novelist from the United States, best known for The Savage Girl.

Quick Facts About Alex Shakar

Born: January 1, 1968
Nationality: United States
Profession: Novelist
Notable works: The Savage Girl

About Alex Shakar

Alexander Michael Shakar is an American novelist, short story writer, and academic. His novel Luminarium received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction. His first novel, The Savage Girl, was chosen as a "Notable Book" by The New York Times, was a IndieBound pick, and has been translated into six languages.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Alex Shakar

“Children, awkward, isolate, their bodies crammed to bursting with caffein and sugar and pop music and cologne and perfume and hairgel and…

Capitalism

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You need contradictions to make an ideal.

Contradiction

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With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.

Community

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“An ironic religion -- one that never claims to be absolutely true but only professes to be relatively beautiful, and never promises…

Capitalism

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“On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.”

Art

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“That's the problem with relationships," George was saying. "It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act…

Change

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From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And from the love will follow truth.

Beauty

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“Fred put away the phone, finished off his bourbon, and resumed watching the couple suck on the combined mass of their two…

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She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

Deep thought

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That's the problem with relationships, It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way…

Agree

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Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

Adulthood

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“It's kind of a dark little life . . . being a paranoiac, but it's also not without its comforts.”

Life

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“How easy it is for men to talk about beauty, and how subtly intimidating when they do.”

Beauty

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Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs.…

Cat

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“The only spot of comfort was the lingering impression of her fingertips through the fabric of his shirt, a reminder of the…

Love

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“He dozed off, into a dreamless oblivion, for what seemed like seconds but was in fact hours, and awoke hungover, the inner…

Drinking

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“Beauty is the PR campaign of the soul.”

Beauty

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Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities…

Beautiful

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