"The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art"."

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Source : David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.166, Vintage

David Shields

#Art Quotes #Reality Quotes #Poetry Quotes

“NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.”
“I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?”
“When you're young it's easy to confuse passion for love.”
“You have a... remarkable memory." "I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.”
“You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.”
“I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.”
“The central attitudes driving the Water Torturer are: You are crazy. You fly off the handle over nothing. I can easily convince other people that you're the one who is messed up. As long as I'm calm, you can't call anything I do abusive, no matter how cruel. I know exactly how to get under your skin.”

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