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I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear
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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Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.
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I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.
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Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.
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If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.
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The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my head and the aural glitter of all those little eardrum hairs quivering like a drunk in withdrawal.
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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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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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Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui -- these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.
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Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.
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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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The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.
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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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Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
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