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“We don’t need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.”
― Selected Stories
― Selected Stories
“The problem is going to be, "Let's see, I spent all day staring at a computer screen and then at night my most meaningful relationships are with the two-dimensional characters who aren't in fact two-dimensional characters . . . Gee, I wonder why I'm lonely and doing a lot of drugs? Could there be any connection between the fact that I've got nothing to do with other people, that I don't really have a fucking clue what it is to have a real life, and the fact that most of my existence is mediated by entertainment that I passively choose to receive?”
― David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
― David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
“How good I would feel if I could be something that called itself neither man nor woman.”
― The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
― The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“What terrible shame overcomes me when I discover the male or female in myself!”
― The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
― The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
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