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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.

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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New York
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Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.
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I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from the whole elemental exterior I'd come to see as my co-conspirator.
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I do things like get in a taxi and say, The library, and step on it.
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You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.
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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
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...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.
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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
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Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.
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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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I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.
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