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David Foster Wallace

"The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?"

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Vera Miles

"Poetry has its own unique language which every mind translates differently according to their own personal view."

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Vera Miles

"Music makes my soul happy."

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Vera Miles

"Poetry happens when there is nothing to say but you have a volcano hidden inside you waiting to erupt."

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Vera Miles

"Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that."

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Vera Miles

"Poetry is the truth dressed up with perceptions, emotions, and anxieties of expression."

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Vera Miles

"Music lifted our spirit."

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Vera Miles

"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service.""

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Vera Miles

"When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art."

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Vera Miles

"Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint."

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Vera Miles

"Everyone can understand music which is the universal language of love and kindness."

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David Foster Wallace
"Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly."

Psychology

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David Foster Wallace
"JAY: Why is a story more upfront than life?LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow.JAY: Honest meaning closer to the truth?LENORE: I smell trap.JAY: I smell breakthrough. The truth is that there's no difference between a life and a story? But a life pretends to be something more? But it really isn't more?LENORE: I would kill for a shower."

Truth

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David Foster Wallace
"Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men's tour on television has, over the last few years, had what might be termed Federer Moments. These are times, watching the young Swiss at play, when the jaw drops and eyes protrude and sounds are made that bring spouses in from other rooms to see if you're OK."

Sports

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David Foster Wallace
"This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway."

Philosophy

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David Foster Wallace
"Time wasn't passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed tits of a man who disdains the care of his once-comely bod."

Aging

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David Foster Wallace
"This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it."

God

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

Fact

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David Foster Wallace
"People hate people, not freedom."

Humanity

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David Foster Wallace
"A question, doctor," he said. "Why doesn't the coyote take the money he spends on bird costumes and catapults and radioactive road runner food pellets and explosive missiles and simply go eat Chinese?" He smiled coolly. "Why doesn't the coyote simply go eat Chinese food?"

Life

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David Foster Wallace
"The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light."

Insight

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