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Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

- David Shields
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From Matthew Brady and the Civil War through, say, Robert Capa in World War II to people like Malcolm Brown and Tim Page in Vietnam. There was, seems to me, a kind of war-is-hell photography where the photographer is actually filming from life.

Nothing really changes: the individual's ability to project his message or throw his weight around remains minuscule.

I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.

Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports.

If the bus driver is black, I thank him... when I get off at my spot, whereas I would never think of doing this if the driver were white.

When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.

It's true of so many fiction writers that I much prefer the essayistic work they did, whether it's David Foster Wallace's, or John Cheever's, or Nathaniel Hawthorne's.

Good poets borrow; great poets steal.

Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.

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Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.