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“ ”The reality is that dying isn’t bad, but it takes forever. And that forever is no time at all. I know that sounds like a contradiction, or maybe just wordplay. What it really is, it turns out, is a matter of perspective. — David Foster Wallace “Good Old Neon” (2004)
About David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (21 February 1962 – 12 September 2008) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His works include The Broom of the System (novel), Infinite Jest (novel), The Girl With Curious Hair (short story collection), Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (short story collection), A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (essay collection), and the posthumously-published The Pale King (novel) and Both Flesh and Not (essay collection).
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Additional quotes by David Foster Wallace
"Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it."
[Q&A with Larry McCaffery, <i>Review of Contemporary Fiction</i>, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2]
"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."
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.