And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
— Kurt Vonnegut (via phant0m-limb)
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I guess when I was in my 20s, but like deep down underneath all the bullshit, what I really believed was that the point of fiction was to show that the writer was really smart. And that sounds terrible to say but I think, looking back, that’s what was going on and uh, I don’t think I really understood what loneliness was when I was a young man. And now, I’ve got a much less clear idea of what the point of art is but I think it’s got something to do with loneliness and something to do with setting up a conversation between human beings.
— David Foster Wallace, speaking to Michael Silverblatt on KCRW on Infinite Jest (via rezipzaloquitur)
Posted August 16, 2011 at 12:58pm in books david foster wallace fiction infinite jest lit loneliness readers writers writing
