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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.
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Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.
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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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I do things like get in a taxi and say, The library, and step on it.
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People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.
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Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
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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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Many people in America throw the term fascism around, particularly for Middle-Eastern terrorists, but in fact what fascism really is is a close alliance between a unitary executive and a state and large corporations and a state.
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Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.
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I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.
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Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off David Lynch is interested in the ear.
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Dostoevski informs everybody or he ought to.
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Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude - but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.
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He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot.
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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
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