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So yo then man what's your story?

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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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New York
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I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I.
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I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.
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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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I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers.
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The point of books is to combat loneliness.
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.
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In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.
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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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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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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 find in myself a need to get very away.
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