"My medium is prose, not the novel."

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Source : David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.23, Vintage

David Shields

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“If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams are something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.”
“. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.”
“I married beneath me. All women do.”

Source : Quoted in Dictionary of National Biography 1961 - 1970 (1981)
“There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.”
“If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did.”
“I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.”
“Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.”

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