Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.
~ 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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Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
~ David Foster Wallace

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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
~ 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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The increasing control of U.S. mass media by a mere handful of corporations has — rather counterintuitively — created a situation of extreme fragmentation, a kaleidoscope of information options.
~ David Foster Wallace

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If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay at home.
~ 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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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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