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"My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it."
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David Foster WallaceCompared with many talk-radio hosts, John Ziegler is unusually polite — David Foster Wallace
"Compared with many talk-radio hosts, John Ziegler is unusually polite to on-air callers. Which is to say that he doesnt yell at them, call them names, or hang up while theyre speaking, although he does get frustrated with some calls. But there are good and bad kinds of frustration, stimulation-wise. Hence the delicate art of call screening."
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David Foster Wallace
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David Foster Wallace was an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays. He is best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine named one of the 100 best English-language novels published from 1923 to 2005. In 2008, David Ulin wrote for the Los Angeles Times that Wallace was "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty yea
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"What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?"
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"Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain."
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"Betraying her class and origin with the heartbreaking openness Joelles always viewed as either terribly stupid or terribly brave"
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"You know what your problem is, Hallie? I have just one problem?"
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"They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier."
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