Author: David Shields

Quotes

I really love that idea of the essay as an investigation. That's all anyone's life is.

I really love that idea of the essay as an investigation. That's all anyone's life is.

- David Shields

Take Jonathan Franzen's work: it's just old wine in new bottles. They say he's the Tolstoy of the digital age, but there can only be a Tolstoy of the Tolstoyan age.

Take Jonathan Franzen's work: it's just old wine in new bottles. They say he's the Tolstoy of the digital age, but there can only be a Tolstoy of the Tolstoyan age.

- David Shields

Aging followed by death is the price we pay for the immortality of our genes. You find this information soul-killing; I find it thrilling, liberating.

Aging followed by death is the price we pay for the immortality of our genes. You find this information soul-killing; I find it thrilling, liberating.

- David Shields

Every writer from Montaigne to William S. Burroughs has pasted and cut from previous work. Every artist, whether it's Warhol or, you know, Dangermouse or whoever.

Every writer from Montaigne to William S. Burroughs has pasted and cut from previous work. Every artist, whether it's Warhol or, you know, Dangermouse or whoever.

- David Shields

Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.

Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.

- David Shields

I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

- David Shields

All art is theft.

All art is theft.

- David Shields

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