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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What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves.
~ 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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Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans.
~ 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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