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David Foster Wallace

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

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It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most ""familiarity"" is meditated and delusive.

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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

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Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

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I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

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The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

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To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.

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One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

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We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life ""outside"" the story changes the story.

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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

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