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You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.

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
David Wallace
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