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Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.
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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their entire lives to it. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe.
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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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....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an end can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed for you.
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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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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
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life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.
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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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You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.
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What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?
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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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Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.
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Mediocrity is contextual.
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I think the only thing for me, the tricky thing with the footnotes, is that they are an irritant, and they require a little extra work, and so they either have to be really germane or they have to be kind of fun to read.
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There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says 'Morning, boys. How's the water?' And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water?'
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Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
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That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine.
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All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression.
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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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So yo then man what's your story?
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She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.
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