All David Foster Wallace Quotes
This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
David Foster Wallace
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It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
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What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
David Foster Wallace
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The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
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Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
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One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.
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I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
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This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
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The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
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Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
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TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.
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The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.
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This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.
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