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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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I do things like get in a taxi and say, The library, and step on it.
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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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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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Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
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...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.
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Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.
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Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.
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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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What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.
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Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est (They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier).
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Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.
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The man who knows his limitations, has none.
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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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There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free.
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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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