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...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

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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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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My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.
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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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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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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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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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The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.
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It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.
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Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic? I give. You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.
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I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in non-fiction, just because I got a couple of magazine jobs when I was really poor and needed the money and it turned out that non-fiction was much more interesting than I thought it was.
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One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.
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My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.
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You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.
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Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.
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What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.
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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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She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.
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No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.
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