Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.
~ David Foster Wallace

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You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
~ David Foster Wallace

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Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.
~ David Foster Wallace

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Whatever the social effects of talk radio or the partisan agendas of certain hosts, it is a fallacy that political talk radio is motivated by ideology. It is not. Political talk radio is a business, and it is motivated by revenue. The conservatism that dominates today’s AM airwaves does so because it generates high Arbitron ratings, high ad rates, and maximum profits.
~ David Foster Wallace

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