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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
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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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I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from the whole elemental exterior I'd come to see as my co-conspirator.
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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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TV's real agenda is to be liked, because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this it's its sole raison.
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So yo then man what's your story?
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