"To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in……" — David Foster Wallace
"To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing."
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303 Quotes by David Foster Wallace
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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