Friday, May 20, 2011

episode 6 (nrqfdlaocyeubyartwdfw)


non-random quotes from David Lipsky's Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace:

“I had no idea that 90 percent of what I was getting out of books I really loved was this sense of a conversation around loneliness.”

“I have to structure my life, you know, sort of like anybody who’s dedicated to something. To maximize my ability to do good stuff. And it’s just like, and it doesn’t make me a great person. It just makes me a person that’s really exhausted a couple other ways to live, you know? And really taken them, taken them to their conclusion. Which for me was a pink room, with no furniture and a drain in the center of the floor. Which is where they put me for an entire day when they thought I was going to kill myself. Where you don’t have anything on, and somebody’s observing you through a slot in the wall.
“And when that happens to you, you get tremendous—you get unprecedentedly willing to examine other alternatives for how to live. (Laughs in satisfaction)”

“My musical tastes are so eclectic and so involved, it’s like what students have given me. I mean I didn’t even, I hadn’t even heard of Nirvana until after that man died.”

No comments:

Post a Comment