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- God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is…
- When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information…
- Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see or…
- Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about…
- Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all…
- I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from…
- (I'm not putting any of this well. I am not and never have been an intellectual. I am not articulate, and the subjects that I…
- 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…
- 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…
- The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk…
- I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back.
- This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.
- In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the reader. Where there’s…
- It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.
- In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and…
- The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to…
- There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen…
- It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass…
- What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing…
- Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's…
- ....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…
- If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they…
- My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.
- You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
- Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
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