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So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up shits creek. He smiled.
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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A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.
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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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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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A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.
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