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Able Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a…
- The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to…
- The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to…
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