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The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.
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Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.
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I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.
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TV's real agenda is to be liked, because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this it's its sole raison.
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I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.
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