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The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
David Foster Wallace
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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.
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Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.
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There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.
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I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers.
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My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.
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That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine.
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Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est (They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier).
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I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.
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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.
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Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive this is why we tend to call even his weirdest stories nightmarish rather than surreal.
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Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
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You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.
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I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.
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Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.
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I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.
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She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.
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In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the reader. Where there’s some kind of relationship between the writer and the reader - even though it’s mediated by a kind of text - there’s an electricity about it.
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