Endnotes: David Foster Wallace (BBC Documentary)
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“The forgiveness machine was seven-feet long,” she says, “with lots of weird plastic bits and pieces. Heavy as hell.” The idea was that you wrote down the thing that you wanted to forgive, or to be forgiven for, and a vacuum sucked your piece of paper in one end. At the other it was shredded, and hey presto. “Forgiving is never as easy as we would like,” she says. “Apparently quite a lot of people cried.” - Karen Green
(Source: Guardian)
"Dear Iraq: Do like us. After 100 years let your slaves go. After 150 let your women vote. Love, Uncle Sam."
Kurt Vonnegut, The Infinite Mind
"Now, I’m a fan of Nietzsche- he got a bum rap with that whole Nazi thing, he certainly did, but anyway, as he said, what governs our actions today is our future. And I look at where I’ve been now, I’m 83 and I’ve been everywhere I’m going to be and it seems to me that I have been steered."
Kurt Vonnegut, on the existence of Luck