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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

Topics: Becomes End Itself More Per Pleasure Than Value Western

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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: Consequences Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Our Simply Stakes Tendencies Tv Weapons

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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

Topics: About Between Contemporary Descendants Differences Early Fifties Might One Way Postmodern Sixties Start Talking Way Writers

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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

Topics: About Agenda Because Like Liked Real Seeing Sole Stay Tuned Tv You

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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

Topics: Admire Art Become Creative Exercise Get Instead Like Reader Trying You

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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

Topics: Art Brings Depend Good Good Art Idea Just Like Makes People Them Think Tv Vehicle Which I Think

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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.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: Coupled Desire Desperate Hostility Kind Myself Often Other Please Reader See Think Writers Young Young Writers I Can

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The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: Beings Fact Half Human Human Beings Now Other Still

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This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: About Anybody Diagnosis Done Engage Lines Two

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

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: Familiarity Find Important Most Ourselves Reminding Seems Ways

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 21st, 1962

Died: December 12th, 2008

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