"Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Dale Peck

#Contemporary Fiction Quotes #Easy Quotes #Shallow Quotes

“I couldn't remember the last time I hadn't had to fake gratitude for a gift, and now that I actually was grateful, thank you didn't seem to cut it.”
“Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.”

Source : "This much I know: Dave Stewart". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2012.
“As soon as you feel comfortable, that's when it's time to start over.”
“My greatest thrill? That's easy. It came the day Mr. McGraw named his 20 all-time players. I'm ninth on that list and that is thrill enough to last me a lifetime.”
“There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning ...”
“Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.”
“Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.”
“We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls...”

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