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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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Ithica
New York
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Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.
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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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Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people.
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My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.
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Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
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Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
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American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.
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Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.
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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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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 received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.
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This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
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Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.
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every failure is also a victory.
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...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.
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Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated as I am, and that some of these people probably have much harder, more tedious or painful lives than I do, overall.
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I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.
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In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.
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Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it means you’re just never the same.
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