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“Sounding frank, honest, and sincere is, of course, a rhetorical strategy in itself, known from ancient literature as parrhesia. It’s often employed by liars.”
John Jeremiah Sullivan“Nothing vexes me so much in stupidity as the fact that it is better pleased with itself than any reason can reasonably be. It is unfortunate that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and trust yourself, and always sends you away discontented and diffident, whereas opinionativeness and heedlessness fill their hosts with rejoicing and assurance.”
John Jeremiah Sullivan, The Best American Essays 2014“[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.”
David Foster Wallace, The Best American Essays 2007