#de

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#big #both #joy #look #mine

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#blacks #conscious #hideous #like #oppression

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#alarm #cause #cultures #deeper #fire

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#brings #depend #good #good art #i

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#art #become #creative #creative art #exercise

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#intensified #nuclear #nuclear weapons #our #simply

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#eyes #god #hush #i #i see

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#classes #combined #cultures #deceit #ends

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. ↗

— Irving Wallace

#conformity #cowardice #easy #more #right

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#against #death #history #inscriptions #monuments