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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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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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This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
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The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
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It feels intensely twisted to see reigning industry queen Jenna Jameson chilling out at the Vivid booth in Jordaches and a latex bustier and to know already that she has a tattoo of a sundered valentine with the tagline Heart Breaker on her right buttock and a tiny hairless ole just left of her anus.
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I do things like get in a taxi and say, The library, and step on it.
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This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
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I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear
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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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the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs go, but yet of course we should always remember that a deep need for anything from other people makes us easy pickings.
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