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Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.
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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Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.
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My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.
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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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Dostoevski informs everybody or he ought to.
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