David Shields - I try to be as honest as I possibly can about the contradictions within my own heart...

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I try to be as honest as I possibly can about the contradictions within my own heart and thereby get to something 'true' and revealing and important about contemporary American culture and human nature.

David Shields

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Ich versuche so ehrlich wie möglich über die Widersprüche in meinem eigenen Herzen zu sein und dadurch etwas "Wahres" und Aufschlussreiches und Wichtiges über die amerikanische Kultur und die menschliche Natur der Gegenwart zu erfahren.

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