David Rakoff Quotes


Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.


Citations

Rakoff, David. Don't Get Too Comfortable. Doubleday, 2005.

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David Rakoff
David Rakoff
  • Born: November 27, 1964
  • Died: August 9, 2012
  • Nationality: Canadian, American
  • Profession: Writer

David Benjamin Rakoff was a Canadian-born American writer of prose and poetry based in New York City, who wrote humorous and sometimes autobiographical non-fiction essays. Rakoff was an essayist, journalist, and actor, and a regular contributor to WBEZ's This American Life. Rakoff described himself as a "New York writer" who also happened to be a "Canadian writer", a "mega Jewish writer", a "gay writer", and an "East Asian Studies major who has forgotten most of his Japanese" writer.