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My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.
E. L. Doctorow
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E. L. Doctorow
Age: 84 †
Born: 1931
Born: January 6
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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Edgar Laurence Doctorow
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow
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Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne.
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I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.
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I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
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I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.
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A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.
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I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.
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The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.
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We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.
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And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.
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Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
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Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.
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Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.
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The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.
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Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.
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Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.
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Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.
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I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
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