Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.
~ David Foster Wallace
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The fact of the matter is that it is not John Ziegler’s job to be responsible, or nuanced, or to think about whether his on-air comments are productive or dangerous, or cogent, or even defensible. That is not to say that the host would not defend his “we’re better”—strenuously—or that he does not believe it’s true. It is to say that he has exactly one on-air job, and that is to be stimulating.
~ David Foster Wallace
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It is, after all, unlikely that Rush Limbaugh always feels as jaunty and confident as he seems on the air, or that Howard Stern really is deeply fascinated by porn starlets every waking minute of the day. But a host’s persona is not the same as outright acting. For the most part, it’s probably more like the way we are all slightly different with some people than we are with others.
~ David Foster Wallace
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There is something inescapably bovine about an American tourist in motion as part of a group. A certain greedy placidity about them. Us, rather. In port we automatically become Peregrinator americanusy Die Lumpenamerikaner. The Ugly Ones.
~ David Foster Wallace
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The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
~ David Foster Wallace
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‘Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure’ would seem to have been almost custom-designed for the case of tattoos.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?
~ 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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What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
~ David Foster Wallace
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