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Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.
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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Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.
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