The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.
~ 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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Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.
~ David Foster Wallace

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Try to learn to let what is unfair teach 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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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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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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