Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life. - E. L. Doctorow
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.
- E. L. Doctorow
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. - E. L. Doctorow
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins. - E. L. Doctorow
A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. - E. L. Doctorow
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. - E. L. Doctorow
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us. - E. L. Doctorow
We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.
The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card. - E. L. Doctorow
The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.
I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them. - E. L. Doctorow
I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.
We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy. - E. L. Doctorow
We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.
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