Top 20 D.T. Max Quotes

#1. It is the ultimate metafictional act, not homicide but suicide. (Wallace would say that one of the problems of metafiction is that there is no difference.)

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#2. I didn't go through anyone's garbage. People brought what they felt I needed to know to me.

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#3. As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

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#4. Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

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#5. He found Fraden, the department head, exactly how he hoped she'd be. They soon had a standing date to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer every Tuesday night at her house. As

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#6. Comfort and solace come about differently for different people.

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#7. Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way, the [prion] seems the strangest thing in all biology, and, until someone in some laboratory figures out what it is, a candidate for Modern Wonder. (quote originally by Lewis Thomas)

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#8. Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?

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#9. He told his roommate that when he was writing, I can't feel my ass in the chair.

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#10. Centerless pop-culture country full of marginalized subnations that are themselves postmodern, looped, self-referential, self-obsessed, voyeuristic, passive, slack-jawed, debased.

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#11. His anguish, he wrote, had multiple sources, from a fear of fame to a fear of failure. Behind the ordinary fears lurked the fear of being ordinary.

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#12. That was it exactly - irony was defeatist, timid, the telltale of a generation too afraid to say what it meant, and so in danger of forgetting it had anything to say.

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#13. What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.

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#14. He found he was popular, known for a loose style and an appealing willingness to digress. "We spend most of our time talking about Twin Peaks and The Simpsons so they think I am an okay caballero," he told Markson.

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#15. In the age of media, we are nothing but minds waiting to be filled, emotions waiting to be manipulated.

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#16. Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.

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#17. In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness.

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#18. The truth is out there somewhere, but the dog needs to be walked.

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#19. American writers were still content to describe an ironic culture when they should be showing the way out.

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#20. America was, Wallace now knew, a nation of addicts, unable to see that what looked like love freely given was really need neurotically and chronically unsatisfied.

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