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David Foster Wallace Quotes

Atwater knew? as did everyone at Style, though by some strange unspoken consensus it was never said aloud? that this was the single great informing conflict of the American psyche. The management of insignificance. It was the great syncretic bond of US monoculture.

David Foster Wallace

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