David Wong Quotes


We depend for so much on those we love that of course we want them to have desirable personal qualities and to believe that we do too. But if we pin our love for another, and theirs for us, based on personal qualities, it confers an unacceptable conditionality and substitutability on love: we don't want to be exchanged for a better model of whatever our lovers deem to be desirable, so there is a strong tendency to want: to be loved for no reason at all, simply be loved.


Citations

Wong, David B. "Pluralistic Relativist." Interview by Richard Marshall. 3:AM Magazine, 16 Jun. 2017.

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David Wong
David Wong
  • Born: January 10, 1975
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Jason Pargin, known by his former pen name David Wong, is an American humor writer. He is the former executive editor of humor website Cracked.com, a recurring guest in the Cracked Podcast, and has written five novels: John Dies at the End (2007), This Book Is Full of Spiders (2012), Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits (2015), What the Hell Did I Just Read (2017), and Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick (2020). John Dies at the End was adapted into a film of the same name in 2012.