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Called Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of…
- I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on…
- What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more…
- If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.
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- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
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