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Simply 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…
- Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
- All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the…
- 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…
- Boo, I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen…
- ...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.
- If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.
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