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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
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If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.
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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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This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
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The man who knows his limitations, has none.
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Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
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