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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. - David Foster Wallace
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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. - David Foster Wallace
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Fiction's about what it is to be a human being. - David Foster Wallace
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It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive. - David Foster Wallace
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Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. - David Foster Wallace
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This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it. - David Foster Wallace
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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. - David Foster Wallace
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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. - David Foster Wallace
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The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do? - David Foster Wallace
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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. - David Foster Wallace
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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. - David Foster Wallace
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What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it. - David Foster Wallace
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The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. - David Foster Wallace
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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. - David Foster Wallace
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This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. - David Foster Wallace
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