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I am not what you see and 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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Ithica
New York
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Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.
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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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The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.
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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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I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, The library, and step on it.
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It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
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life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.
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The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.
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It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass ring that usually involves people feeling some way about you – I mean, people wonder why we walk around feeling alienated and lonely and stressed out.
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What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?
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My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.
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Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.
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We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.
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I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit’sOKit’sOKit’sOK, over and over. From very far away.
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