"I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many."

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Source : "Interview with Ben Fountain, Author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

Ben Fountain

#Littles Quotes #Gaps Quotes #Ashamed Quotes

“If a rumor comes out that I'm gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying.”

Source : The CinemaSource Interview, January 28, 2008.
“I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy”
“No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.”
“Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?”
“Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.”
“All of the great whales are endangered.”
“So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these peculiar questions of everybody - important people, young men, slaves - questions that had to do with ultimately what's the life that's worth living. And Plato was one of the young men who hung around him, a very aristocratic young man, came from a very old, important family.”
“What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call the here and now. You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that the wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe.”

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