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David Foster Wallace
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Donald Barthelme
“The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
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H.L. Mencken
“Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.”
H.L. Mencken

Virginia Woolf
“Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.”
Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Djuna Barnes
“Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.”
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

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