33 ordspråk av E. L. Doctorow
E. L. Doctorow
For some reason that excited me.
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't see any point in making a big fuss about it. I just said, 'No, thank you.'
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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.
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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.
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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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Its glory is all moonshine.
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