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Famous David Antin Quotes
“It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.”
“From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.”
“I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.”
“My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.”
“There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.”
“I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.”
“Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.”
“I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.”
“I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.”
“I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.”