D. T. Max Quotes

• Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

  D. T. Max

  Agreement, Community, Saws

  D. T. Max (2012). “Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace”, p.182, Penguin

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• The truth is out there somewhere, but the dog needs to be walked.

  D. T. Max

  Dog, Needs, Truth Is

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• People are always invoking evolutionary psychology for everything. "Why do men hang around asking women out? Oh, to improve their reproductive success," every damn thing - religion, art - it can all be explained by evolutionary psychology. But in our hearts we know that evolutionary psychology is only sort of accurate, because it really doesn't capture what's most interesting about our lives.

  D. T. Max

  Art, Men, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

  D. T. Max

  Narrators, Mistrust, Explanation

  Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.

  D. T. Max

  Hate, Biographies, Subjects

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't go through anyone's garbage. People brought what they felt I needed to know to me.

  D. T. Max

  People, Garbage, Needed

  Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?

  D. T. Max

  Mistake, Past, Discovery

  Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Comfort and solace come about differently for different people.

  D. T. Max

  People, Comfort, Different

  Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.

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