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life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.
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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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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She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.
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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
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...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.
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I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.
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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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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 cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are I cannot look at them they are the sun to me.
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The point here is ... to be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.
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The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.
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It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass ring that usually involves people feeling some way about you – I mean, people wonder why we walk around feeling alienated and lonely and stressed out.
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Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
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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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Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.
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Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.
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Mediocrity is contextual.
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The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the ‘Oh how banal.’
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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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