33 ordspråk av E. L. Doctorow

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E. L. Doctorow föddes den 6 januari 1931
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 For some reason that excited me.

 Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

 He was a brilliant man, a complex man. The march justified him as a military man, but he had a great deal of guilt about it, and when the war was over he immediately left his troops and went down to do rescue-and-recovery operations. He wanted to rehabilitate the people he'd been destroying and dispossessing.

 History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

 History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

 I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

 I don't see any point in making a big fuss about it.  I just said, 'No, thank you.'

 I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

 I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

 I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

 If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

 In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

 It seemed to me so much more sensible to make something up than go through the tedious business of interviewing someone. I was just a kid and so maybe I was scared that no one would want to talk to me. And I figured that if there wasn't a Carl the doorman, there should have been.

 It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

 Its glory is all moonshine.


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