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Robert Coover quotes: We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

Robert Coover quotes: Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.

Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.

Robert Coover quotes: In a way, Sandy did them a disservice, provided them with dreams and legends that blocked off their perception of the truth.

In a way, Sandy did them a disservice, provided them with dreams and legends that blocked off their perception of the truth.

Robert Coover quotes: Message of the Legalists: without law, power lost its shape.

Message of the Legalists: without law, power lost its shape.

Robert Coover quotes: History my god. An incurable diarrhea of dead immortals.

History my god. An incurable diarrhea of dead immortals.

Robert Coover quotes: My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.

My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.

Robert Coover quotes: No matter how much sunlight and fresh air she lets in, there's always this dark little pocket of lingering night which she has to uncover.

No matter how much sunlight and fresh air she lets in, there's always this dark little pocket of lingering night which she has to uncover.

Robert Coover quotes: It's not even a lesson. It's just what it is. Damon holds the baseball up between them. It is hard and white and alive in the sun.

It's not even a lesson. It's just what it is. Damon holds the baseball up between them. It is hard and white and alive in the sun.

Robert Coover quotes: I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers.

I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers.

Robert Coover quotes: I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

Robert Coover quotes: The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.

Robert Coover quotes: Maybe it all went back to the days when games were decided, not by the best score in nine innings, but by the first team to score twenty-one runs

Maybe it all went back to the days when games were decided, not by the best score in nine innings, but by the first team to score twenty-one runs

Robert Coover quotes: Shitfire, parson! And I mean thet sincerely!

Shitfire, parson! And I mean thet sincerely!