American - Writer | February 21, 1962 - December 12, 2008
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
David Foster Wallace
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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
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It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.
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Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
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It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.
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This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
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What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
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This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.
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For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
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