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Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.
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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Dostoevski informs everybody or he ought to.
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This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
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