#v

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#above #apart #flaws #gets #great

I never was a child. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#i #never

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

I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#american films #british #films #getting #hopes

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining? ↗

— George C. Wallace

#air force #been #bombers #bombing #complaining

Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go. ↗

— George C. Wallace

#change #exact #exactly #figure #give

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever! ↗

— George C. Wallace

#now #segregation #tomorrow