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“The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.” quote by David Foster Wallace — Download Open image

“The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.”

David Foster Wallace

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“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.”

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“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.”

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Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape…

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“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,…

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“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to…

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“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic…

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“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we…

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“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only…

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“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?”

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“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether…

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