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She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.
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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.
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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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I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.' ... 'I don't mind,' Hal said softly. 'I could wait forever.' 'That's what you think,' the voice said. The connection was cut.
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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
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Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith. . . . Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.
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Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.
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Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
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Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est (They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier).
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The point of books is to combat loneliness.
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The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.
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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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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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The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
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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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