May 2010
31 posts
May 31st
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“It doesn’t… it doesn’t have a responsibility to care about us one whit...”
– DFW from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself a road trip with David Foster Wallace David Lipsky
May 31st
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“… if the book’s about anything, it’s about the question of why am I...”
– DFW on Infinite Jest from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself a road trip with David Foster Wallace David Lipsky
May 30th
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“I guess what I’m talking about is entertainment versus art, where that main job...”
– DFW from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself a road trip with David Foster Wallace David Lipsky
May 29th
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“Theres something really vital about food that candy’s missing, although to make...”
– DFW from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself a road trip with David Foster Wallace David Lipsky
May 28th
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May 27th
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“I’ve never read really good essays about the different kinds of seduction in...”
– DFW from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself a road trip with David Foster Wallace David Lipsky
May 27th
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“To define the divide in a sentence: In [conservative] America, families form...”
– Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families? (via themadeshop)
May 26th
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“I think one of the insideous lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re...”
– DFW from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself a road trip with David Foster Wallace David Lipsky
May 26th
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“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your...”
–  E. L. Doctorow (via simko)
May 26th
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“The way to finish the book is to turn down the volume on the stuff that’s all...”
– DFW from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself a road trip with David Foster Wallace David Lipsky
May 25th
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May 25th
May 24th
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“…most bright people, something happens in your late twenties, where you...”
– DFW from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself a road trip with David Foster Wallace David Lipsky
May 24th
May 23rd
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“Say how you’d feel about it, as a springboard. So that I’ve got a context to...”
– DFW-Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself a road trip with David Foster Wallace David Lipsky
May 21st
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May 20th
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“Part of the shyness for me is, its very easy for me to play this game of, What...”
– DFW from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself a road trip with David Foster Wallace David Lipsky
May 20th
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“There’s an unbelievable arrogance about even trying to write something- much...”
– DFW-Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourselfa road trip with David Foster Wallace David Lipsky
May 19th
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May 19th
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May 18th
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May 17th
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“I think being shy basically means being self-absorbed to the extent that it...”
– DFW from Although of course you end up Becoming Yourself David Lipsky
May 14th
Pro-Life or Anti-Sex? →
themadeshop: veisalgia: A thought… It seems to me that most Pro-Life people I know really aren’t Pro-Life at all. They are, rather, Anti-Sex. That is, the abortion debate is often just a cover to wage war on the sexual revolution and the Dawn of the Pill. What many Pro-Life people are angry about is the casual sexuality of our age, an era of “abortion on demand.” Pro-Life advocacy, then, is...
May 13th
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May 13th
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May 13th
May 8th
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May 7th
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“Once an “enjoyable thing” becomes a “meme,” we stop enjoying the thing for its...”
– Joe Randazzo (via themadeshop) yes, i understand the irony of rebloging this…
May 6th
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May 6th
May 5th
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