"I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear"

-- David Foster Wallace

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“[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba...”

Source : "We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin" by Julian Dibbell, www.wired.com. November 01, 2004.
“When youâ€™ve practiced that so long that you forget youâ€™re practising, you work on making it smooooooth. You wonâ€™t have to worry about the last one â€“ you get those three, and youâ€™ll be fast.”
“I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.”
“The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it”
“I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition.”
“If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself "Come the social revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate". Whereas if his American counterpart saw a bloke drive past in a Cadillac he'd say "One day I'm going to own one of those". To my way of thinking the first attitude is wrong. The latter is right.”
“I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde, which dealt with the conditions in Belgium during the German Occupation of 1918.”
“And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.”

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