Tag: David Foster Wallace
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On University of Chicago’s Biggest Lesson
I’ve long joked with my friends that the most valuable skill one can take away from a University of Chicago education is the ability to genuinely forget everything one learned during the course of that education.
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Still More Quotes On Which Recently I’ve Leaned
To read other quotes on which recently I’ve leaned, check out A Couple of Quotes On Which Recently I’ve Leaned. – – – It’s easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It’s a lot more difficult to perform one. –Chuck Palahniuk, Salon.com Letters, Aug. 26, 2003
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Reflecting My View of Modern Party Dance
Modern party-dance is simply writhing to suggestive music. It is ridiculous, silly to watch and excruciatingly embarrassing to perform. It is ridiculous, and yet absolutely everyone does it, so that it is the person who does not want to do the ridiculous thing who feels out of place and uncomfortable and self-conscious . . .…