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I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.
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Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude - but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.
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What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.
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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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This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
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The man who knows his limitations, has none.
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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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