I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. (David Foster Wallace)

I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

David Foster Wallace

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