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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).
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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This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
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I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are I cannot look at them they are the sun to me.
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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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I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?
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Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.
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The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.
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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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My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.
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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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So yo then man what's your story?
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I find in myself a need to get very away.
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