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Instead Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- 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…
- It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
- Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in…
- Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever…
- Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to live too intensely…
- I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and…
- My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and…
- Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and…
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