David foster wallace
The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.
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Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
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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.
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One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.
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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.
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Since ancient times, we've looked into the night skies and wondered: How far do the stars stretch out into space? And what's beyond them? In modern times, we built giant telescopes that have allowed...
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