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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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David Wallace
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I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.
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But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.
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Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.
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The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.
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Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui -- these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.
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He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot.
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sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.
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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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Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.
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Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic? I give. You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.
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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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I am not what you see and hear.
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The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.
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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.
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