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I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, The library, and step on 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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The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.
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But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.
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People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.
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I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.
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Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers.
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Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude - but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.
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Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
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Many people in America throw the term fascism around, particularly for Middle-Eastern terrorists, but in fact what fascism really is is a close alliance between a unitary executive and a state and large corporations and a state.
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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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The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.
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I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers.
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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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It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility.
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I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.
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What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.
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life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.
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