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Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off David Lynch is interested in the ear.

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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith. . . . Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.
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You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.
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This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
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To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.
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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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