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Collected David Foster Wallace quotes on drugs, from his interview with Lipsky.

>I did some acid in high school. I did a lot of it for about six months and then, I never felt like I was the same again after that. It messed me up. I would encourage those of your readers not yet at puberty to stay away from stuff until your first wet dream. Did a fair amount of psilocybin in college but I would do it over vacations. I didn't do anything when the semester was going on. Smoked a reasonable amount of dope, particularly in college and grad school, and drank a LOT.

>> No.2753091
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>I think I did coke twice. Cocaine for me felt like there was none of the euphoria. There was none of the feeling of being inspired. It was rather like having consumed twenty cups of coffee, that horrible, tooth-grinding stomach.

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>I smoked black-tar heroin, you know what it is? That you put on a cigarette [wut, he smoked black tar on a cigarette?]? At a party once, and I really really liked it.

>> No.2753098

So edgy. Picking out quotes about his drug experiences as if that's really all that makes a man. He'd be disgusted by somebody like you.

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>> No.2753111

DFW once said:

"Most of the problems in my life have to do with my confusing what I want with what I need." 

>> No.2753123

>>2753098

Drugs were an important aspect of his life, much of his work revolves around it. This is the first time he's been upfront about which drugs exactly he took, so I thought I'd share it.

To be honest, I was expecting less common drugs and a lot of research chemicals and stuff, so I'm slightly disappointed.

>> No.2753136

"James Joyce is the most overrated human being since Judas Iscariot won the AD 31 Best Disciple Competition"

-DFW on James Joyce

>> No.2753144

>>2753111
My god man, that's most of the problems with America

>> No.2753149

>>2753136
DFW calling Joyce overrated... oh my sides... god that's rich.

>> No.2753167

>>2753149

He didn't actually say that.

>> No.2753181

>>2753149
Is it ever an author's fault to be overrated?

If anything being misread or read for the wrong reasons has led to the overratedness if his figure.

>> No.2753191

"Thomas Pynchon is the most overrated human being since Judas Iscariot won the AD 31 Best Disciple Competition"

-DFW on Thomas Pynchon

>> No.2753204

>>2753191

"DFW is the most overrated human being since Judas Iscariot won the AD 31 Best Disciple Competition"

-DFW on DFW

>> No.2753219

>>2753091
it sounds like they cheated him with cheap amphetamines

>> No.2753228

>>2753123
>To be honest, I was expecting less common drugs and a lot of research chemicals and stuff, so I'm slightly disappointed.

Ahahahaha. Oh, the levels of your fanaticism, /lit/.

>he's so deep that i thought he'd be doing the deepest unheard of drugs!

>> No.2753235

>>2753091
that is why King is better than DFW. Acid makes shitty writers.

>> No.2753239

>>2753219

I didn't like cocaine either, you don't get the euphoria that ecstasy gives you, just the jittery effects.

>> No.2753245

>>2753228

The drugs in the book are. Apparently he got all his stories from the recovery house he was at.

>> No.2753281

>>2753149
It's obviously fake.

>> No.2753374

>>2753149
Retard.

>> No.2753660

Bump

>> No.2753688

what is the point of this thread?