"A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it."

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Source : David Shields (2013). “How Literature Saved My Life”, p.197, Vintage

David Shields

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“The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear.”
“I love the figure to get across what I feel.”

Source : "An Interview with Jason Shawn Alexander & Sloan Schaffer : No Good At Exits Stuns @ 101/Exhibit’s 2nd Location". Interview with Franceasca Seiden, laicreatives.com. April 17, 2014.
“I like to be aggressive. I like to swing the bat.”
“A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.”
“We learn more about how human brains work. And that leads us to ideas about how to make human brains work better.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.”
“It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.”
“I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.”

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