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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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life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.
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We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a character's pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with their own. This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside. It might just be that simple.
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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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If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.
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The man who knows his limitations, has none.
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Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.
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In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the reader. Where there’s some kind of relationship between the writer and the reader - even though it’s mediated by a kind of text - there’s an electricity about it.
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It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
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I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.
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I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.
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Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
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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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What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.
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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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I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things.
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