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TV's real agenda is to be liked, because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this it's its sole raison.
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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It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.
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Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's going on right in front of me. TC mark
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Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est (They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier).
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...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.
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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.
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Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive this is why we tend to call even his weirdest stories nightmarish rather than surreal.
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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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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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...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.
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Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.
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To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.
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....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an end can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed for you.
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The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.
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So yo then man what's your story?
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There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.
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It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.
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The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.
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The man who knows his limitations, has none.
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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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