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E. L. Doctorow Quotes

«We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.»
Author: E. L. Doctorow (Author, Editor) | Keywords: attracted, edges, nervy, raw
«Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.»
«I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.»
«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.»
«If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.»
«I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.»
«For some reason that excited me.»
«I don't see any point in making a big fuss about it.? I just said, 'No, thank you.'»
«The wretched war had destroyed not only their country but all their presumptions of human self-regard. What a scant, foolish pretense was a family, a culture, a place in history, when it was all so easily defamed. And God was behind this.»
«The thing about this march is it was totally different than the rest of the war, as bloody and brutal and awful as it was.»

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