David Foster Wallace quote: Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, ...

Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth.

~ David Foster Wallace ~

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