David Foster Wallace Quotes

The Almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt Had Very Nearly Nothing Left Anymore Of The Delusion That He Differed From The Great Herd Of The Common Run Of Men, Not Even In His Despair At Not Making A Difference Or In The Great Hunger To Have An Impact That In His Late Twenties He'd Clung To As Evidence That Even Though He Was Emerging As Sort Of A Failure The Grand Ambitions Against Which He Judged Himself A Failure Were Somehow Exceptional And Superior To The Common Run's - Not Anymore, Since Now Even The Phrase Make A Difference Had Become A Platitude So Familiar That It Was Used As The Mnemonic Tag In Low-budget Ad Council PSAs For Big Brothers/Big Sisters And The United Way, Which Used Make A Difference In A Child's Life And Making A Difference In Your Community Respectively, With B.B./B.S. Even Acquiring The Telephonic Equivalent Of DIF-FER-ENCE To Serve As Their Volunteer Hotline Number In The Metro Area.

David Foster Wallace Quotes: The Almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt Had Very Nearly Nothing Left Anymore Of The Delusion That He Differed From The Great Herd

David Foster Wallace Quotes: The Almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt Had Very Nearly Nothing Left Anymore Of The Delusion That He Differed From The Great Herd

David Foster Wallace Quotes: The Almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt Had Very Nearly Nothing Left Anymore Of The Delusion That He Differed From The Great Herd

David Foster Wallace Quotes: The Almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt Had Very Nearly Nothing Left Anymore Of The Delusion That He Differed From The Great Herd

David Foster Wallace Quotes: The Almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt Had Very Nearly Nothing Left Anymore Of The Delusion That He Differed From The Great Herd

David Foster Wallace Quotes: The Almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt Had Very Nearly Nothing Left Anymore Of The Delusion That He Differed From The Great Herd

David Foster Wallace Quotes: The Almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt Had Very Nearly Nothing Left Anymore Of The Delusion That He Differed From The Great Herd

David Foster Wallace Quotes: The Almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt Had Very Nearly Nothing Left Anymore Of The Delusion That He Differed From The Great Herd

David Foster Wallace Quotes: The Almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt Had Very Nearly Nothing Left Anymore Of The Delusion That He Differed From The Great Herd

David Foster Wallace Quotes: The Almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt Had Very Nearly Nothing Left Anymore Of The Delusion That He Differed From The Great Herd

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