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Too Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.
- 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…
- 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…
- What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at…
- And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an…
- My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still there. . .…
- This is how I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?-- this sort of direct question…
- Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people.…
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