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David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
American Writer
Born: Feb 21, 1962
Died: Dec 12, 2008
About Art Good Human Think You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it. David Foster Wallace
God Man Else Worship Cosmos Something Make American Either Then Your
It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one. David Foster Wallace
Good You Minimalist Write Bleeding Like Piece Looks Without Much
This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. David Foster Wallace
Alone Become Inside Less Nourishing
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
Oppression Pride Black Poverty Hideous Rap Response Some Blacks Parody Like Sixties Conscious
For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going. David Foster Wallace
Cause Fire Pain Addressing Would Would-Be Like Without Still Off Cultures Getting Going While Rid Deeper Alarm Shutting
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. David Foster Wallace
Consequences Our TV Weapons Tendencies Simply Intensified Stakes Nuclear Nuclear Weapons
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. David Foster Wallace
Differences Way Postmodern One-Way About Writers Between Contemporary Talking Sixties Might Fifties Descendants Start Early
TV's 'real' agenda is to be 'liked,' because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison. David Foster Wallace
You Sole TV Stay Seeing About Like Liked Because Real Tuned Agenda
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
Art You Creative Become Admire Instead Like Reader Exercise Get Trying
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
Art Good People Depend Think TV Vehicle Idea Like Makes Just Which Them Good Art Brings
This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody. David Foster Wallace
About Diagnosis Lines Done Anybody Engage Two
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. David Foster Wallace
Loneliness Desperate Anesthetic Against Interesting Interesting Thing Why Thing
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive. David Foster Wallace
Important Ways Ourselves Find Seems Reminding Most Familiarity
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. David Foster Wallace
Life Own Changes Outside Sharing Idea Reader Story Keen
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
Saying Willing Scared About Somehow Look Reader Sort Print How Die Move Order In Print Sappy Even Even Now Now
We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us? David Foster Wallace
Parents Wish Back Kind Would Some About Fact Wrong Come Wishing Course Uneasy Mean Us

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