Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it. David Foster Wallace
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If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers … becomes a source of unbelievable …
How odd, I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words. David Foster Wallace’s, The Pale King
Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic cost of being around other humans. David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction"
There is no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship – be it JC or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or …
“Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint conclusion that the purpose of writing fiction was “a way out of loneliness.” NY Times article on the memorial service of David Foster Wallace (via memoriesofmymelancholy)
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