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Right Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- It feels intensely twisted to see reigning industry queen Jenna Jameson chilling out at the Vivid booth in Jordaches and a latex bustier and to…
- 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…
- Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is…
- The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so…
- Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And…
- ....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…
- And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you were right…
- The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.
- [I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.
- My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain…
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