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There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe 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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This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
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Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.
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The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
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Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?
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There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free.
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It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass ring that usually involves people feeling some way about you – I mean, people wonder why we walk around feeling alienated and lonely and stressed out.
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Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.
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Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.
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The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.
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There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.
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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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