David Foster Wallace quotes mostly
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Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen.
June 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen.
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic.
And everywhere that Mary went, the lights became erratic.
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And everywhere that Mary went, the lights became erratic.
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March 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic.
And everywhere that Mary went, the lights became erratic.
#DavidFosterWallace
And everywhere that Mary went, the lights became erratic.
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She was slatternly and exuded pheromones apparently attractive only to bacteria; she had a fatal taste for: (1) polyester; (2) pantsuits; (3) lime green
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February 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
She was slatternly and exuded pheromones apparently attractive only to bacteria; she had a fatal taste for: (1) polyester; (2) pantsuits; (3) lime green
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poor old Fenton’s dysfunctional brain emitted positrons in a whole different topography than your average hale and hearty nondelusional God-fearing Albertan’s brain
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January 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
poor old Fenton’s dysfunctional brain emitted positrons in a whole different topography than your average hale and hearty nondelusional God-fearing Albertan’s brain
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A pathology resident falls in love with a beautiful cadaver and the paralyzed sister she died rescuing from the attack of an oversized feral infant.
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January 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
A pathology resident falls in love with a beautiful cadaver and the paralyzed sister she died rescuing from the attack of an oversized feral infant.
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(she) was severely thin, thin in a way that suggested not delicacy but a kind of stinginess about how much of herself she’d extend to the space around her
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January 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
(she) was severely thin, thin in a way that suggested not delicacy but a kind of stinginess about how much of herself she’d extend to the space around her
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"Under what presidential administration was this room last deep-cleaned,” I'm standing here prompted to fucking muse out loud
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January 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
"Under what presidential administration was this room last deep-cleaned,” I'm standing here prompted to fucking muse out loud
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the very tips of the fingers, here, the most sensitive parts, the parts bathed in warm oil, the whorled pads, I feel them singing with nerves and blood
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December 27, 2024 at 1:49 PM
the very tips of the fingers, here, the most sensitive parts, the parts bathed in warm oil, the whorled pads, I feel them singing with nerves and blood
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an odd hot euphoria that made me walk with the water-jointed jaunt of the person who truly does not give a shit one way or the other
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December 22, 2024 at 1:47 AM
an odd hot euphoria that made me walk with the water-jointed jaunt of the person who truly does not give a shit one way or the other
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December 20, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Good old aural telephone calls could be fielded without makeup, toupee, surgical prostheses, etc. Even without clothes, if that sort of thing rattled your saber.
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December 16, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Good old aural telephone calls could be fielded without makeup, toupee, surgical prostheses, etc. Even without clothes, if that sort of thing rattled your saber.
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#golf Billiards on a big table, Jim. A bodiless game of spasmodic flailing and flying sod. A quote unquote sport. Anal rage and checkered berets.
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December 13, 2024 at 5:24 PM
#golf Billiards on a big table, Jim. A bodiless game of spasmodic flailing and flying sod. A quote unquote sport. Anal rage and checkered berets.
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December 9, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Poor Vlad the Impaler. All he ever wanted was a mirror and some food and a dish to go to the bathroom in.
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December 7, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Poor Vlad the Impaler. All he ever wanted was a mirror and some food and a dish to go to the bathroom in.
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I have (very briefly) joined a Conga Line.
I have seen a woman in silver lamé projectile-vomit across a glass elevator in a way that defied both physics and decorum.
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I have seen a woman in silver lamé projectile-vomit across a glass elevator in a way that defied both physics and decorum.
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November 30, 2024 at 1:28 AM
I have (very briefly) joined a Conga Line.
I have seen a woman in silver lamé projectile-vomit across a glass elevator in a way that defied both physics and decorum.
#DavidFosterWallace
I have seen a woman in silver lamé projectile-vomit across a glass elevator in a way that defied both physics and decorum.
#DavidFosterWallace
The illegally buxom and tall Glory Joy duBoise...eyes like geometry and a all-around bodily form of high allure and near-religious implication
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November 29, 2024 at 12:10 AM
The illegally buxom and tall Glory Joy duBoise...eyes like geometry and a all-around bodily form of high allure and near-religious implication
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She was the kind of fatally pretty and nubile wraithlike figure who glides through the sweaty junior high corridors of every nocturnal emitter's dreamscape
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November 23, 2024 at 4:55 PM
She was the kind of fatally pretty and nubile wraithlike figure who glides through the sweaty junior high corridors of every nocturnal emitter's dreamscape
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November 21, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Evangelical, just like Jimmy Carter's sister, who, if I remember it correctly, was going around performing freelance exorcisms
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November 20, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Evangelical, just like Jimmy Carter's sister, who, if I remember it correctly, was going around performing freelance exorcisms
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"Under what presidential administration was this room last deep-cleaned, I'm standing here prompted to fucking muse out loud"
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November 17, 2024 at 12:13 AM
"Under what presidential administration was this room last deep-cleaned, I'm standing here prompted to fucking muse out loud"
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Every floral unit on the grounds has its pistil aprick and petals atremble in a truly shameless fashion, for the bees are about
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November 16, 2024 at 3:36 AM
Every floral unit on the grounds has its pistil aprick and petals atremble in a truly shameless fashion, for the bees are about
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in heavy seas you feel rocked to sleep, with the windows' spume a gentle shushing, the engine's throb a mother's pulse #davidfosterwallace
November 16, 2024 at 3:21 AM
in heavy seas you feel rocked to sleep, with the windows' spume a gentle shushing, the engine's throb a mother's pulse #davidfosterwallace