That what appears to be egoism so often isn't.

David Foster Wallace


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For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room.

David Foster Wallace


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There's more to life than sitting there interfacing, it might be
a newsflash to you.

David Foster Wallace


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In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation

David Foster Wallace


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That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine...

David Foster Wallace


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Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

David Foster Wallace


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In life, the microphone passes your lips but once... you had better be ready to sing.

David Foster Wallace

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So listen -- one way to lower the flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way though. You can also just raise the pole. You can raise the pole to like twice it's original height.

David Foster Wallace


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There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these are just the hazards of being free.

David Foster Wallace


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I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves.

David Foster Wallace

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