Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?
~ David Foster Wallace

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Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
~ David Foster Wallace

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John Ziegler, who is a talk-radio host of unflagging industry, broad general knowledge, mordant wit, and extreme conviction, makes a particular specialty of media criticism.
~ David Foster Wallace

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I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
~ David Foster Wallace

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Ten o’clock to one qualifies as late at night in southern California, where hardly anything reputable’s open after nine.
~ 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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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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More than any other mass medium, radio enjoys a captive audience — if only because so many of the listeners are driving — but in a major market there are dozens of AM stations to listen to, plus of course FM and satellite radio, and even a very seductive and successful station rarely gets more than a five or six percent audience share.
~ David Foster Wallace

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