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The fun of reading as an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk about.
David Foster Wallace
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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
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To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.
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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
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I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.
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Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.
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I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in non-fiction, just because I got a couple of magazine jobs when I was really poor and needed the money and it turned out that non-fiction was much more interesting than I thought it was.
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In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.
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The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.
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If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are not as alive and interesting as I meant them to be.
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In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.
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I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
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We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a character's pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with their own. This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside. It might just be that simple.
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I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.' ... 'I don't mind,' Hal said softly. 'I could wait forever.' 'That's what you think,' the voice said. The connection was cut.
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Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
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I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear
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You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.
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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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