Justin Dickinson
Helps Make the Internet

Fiction, [Wallace] once said, is “one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties — all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name’s Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion — these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

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David Foster Wallace → A belief in fiction. via Big Contrarian

I post this mostly for myself, to archive this somewhere where I might read it often or quickly find it.

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