David Foster Wallace Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: February 21, 1962 - September 12, 2008
Birthday: February 21
Death: September 12
'This thing I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?' — this sort of direct question is not for the squeamish. For one thing, it's perilously close to 'Do you like me? Please like me,' which you know quite well that 99% of all the interhuman manipulation and bullshit gamesmanship that goes on goes on precisely because the idea of saying this sort of thing straight out is regarded as somehow obscene.
source: "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men".
topic: Names, Ideas, Bullshit, Do You Like Me
