"Anything processed by memory is fiction." — David Shields
"Anything processed by memory is fiction."
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8 Quotes by David Shields
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- Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies…
- Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.
- A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.
- Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any,
- My medium is prose, not the novel.
- You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as…
- I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from…
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