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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
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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She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.
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I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
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If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are not as alive and interesting as I meant them to be.
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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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There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says 'Morning, boys. How's the water?' And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water?'
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I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in non-fiction, just because I got a couple of magazine jobs when I was really poor and needed the money and it turned out that non-fiction was much more interesting than I thought it was.
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Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people.
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You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
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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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Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.
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There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.
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Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.
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It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.
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He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot.
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I am not what you see and hear.
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I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.
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Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.
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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
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Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.
David Foster Wallace
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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