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I’m ashamed and embarrassed to say that I’ve read very little of David Foster Wallace’s work. It’s a huge gap in my education, one of many.

Ben Fountain

I’m ashamed and embarrassed to say that I’ve read very little of David Foster Wallace’s work. It’s a huge gap in my education, one of many.
BEN FOUNTAIN

Ashamed Gaps Littles
The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that’s about the time I started writing decent work.
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Funny Go Letting Things Writing
Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything.
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Country Everything Talent
If you want to write, then write; if you don’t want to write, then don’t write. I fell into the former category, and I just made the decision that I’d keep on because I liked it and might someday do something decent.
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Category Decision Writing
It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life.
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Day Honored Worst
The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.
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Art Real Theater
There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.
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Moments Perfection World
I never listen to music when I’m writing.
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Chamber Choral Music Writing
I kept going back while I was writing the novel – which never sold, may it rest in peace – and by the time it was finished I had too many connections to Haiti to walk away.
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Connection Peace Rest Writing
Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.
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America Country Giant
So many interlocking spirals of history, genetics, common cause, and struggle that it should be the most basic of all drives, that you would strive to protect and love one another, yet this bond that should be the big no-brainer was in fact the hardest thing.
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Another Common Drive Genetics History Protect
If a person wants to be of any use to himself, he better insist on getting his fair share of beauty and pleasure, and if there’s something about the system that’s keeping him from getting his share, then I think he’s well within his rights to fight to change that.
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Fighting Rights Thinking
I got brilliant stories from people who’d never set foot in an MFA program and had published very little, and terrible stories from people who’d published a lot and had all the credentials. It was all over the map and that was part of the fun.
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Feet Fun People
At a certain point I decided to keep on because I felt like the work was getting better, and I was taking great pleasure in that.
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Certain Felt Keep Pleasure Points
Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.
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Long Polite Want
I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train.
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Contract Law Quit Took

I’m ashamed and embarrassed to say that I’ve read very little of David Foster Wallace’s work. It’s a huge gap in my education, one of many.

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