"Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable."

-- David Foster Wallace

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“We still write too many stories that are "state of the race" stories that are informed almost solely by what the polling shows and by what we're then deducing about who's up, who's down, and I'm just not sure that's very helpful to readers, it certainly doesn't elevate the debate and, and the problem is if you, if you cover these things, and I don't think the Times is particularly culpable, I think other news organizations are worse, if you cover them in an entirely "who's up, who's down" horse race way.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The ancients put that thought in the form of a prayer. They said, â€œFrom the cowardice that shrinks from new truth, from the laziness that is content with half truth, from the arrogance that thinks it has all truth â€“ O God of truth, deliver us.”
“You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his next move. "People always think that they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel ****ed up for no reason at all.”
“And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.”
“It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.”
“When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked.”

Source : "Live From" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. January 27, 2005.
“Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.”

Source : Edward H. Levi (2013). “Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi”, p.38, University of Chicago Press
“I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

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