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Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

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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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
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Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.
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