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R. Z. Sheppard Quotes

«As a born actress, she instinctively understands that the world is more than a stage-it is an audience.»

Author: R. Z. Sheppard | About: Actors and acting | Keywords: actress, instinctively, stage, The Actress, understands

«The San Francisco Bay Area [is] the playpen of countercultures.»

Author: R. Z. Sheppard | Keywords: area, bay, Bay Area, counterculture, Francisco, playpen, San, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay, The San

«The short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it; we casually fan the embers of past intimacies, and buy it lunch.»

Author: R. Z. Sheppard | Keywords: buy it, casually, ember, embers, fan, intimacies, short story, The short story

«His reserve of disdain appears endless. He could no sooner shut it off than a vampire could forgo his nightcap.»

Author: R. Z. Sheppard | Keywords: disdain, disdained, disdains, forgo, forgoes, forgoing, nightcap, reserve, shut off, vampire, vampires

«[Ken] Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often intoxicated, fails to get the story but delivers instead a stylishly bizarre account that mocks conventional journalism.»