All David Foster Wallace Quotes
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.
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I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
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We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.
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To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.
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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
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The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?
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For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
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We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?
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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
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It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.
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