“Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.”

—  David Foster Wallace

Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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American fiction writer and essayist 1962–2008

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