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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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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You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
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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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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
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every failure is also a victory.
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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 think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
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Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it means you’re just never the same.
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What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.
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Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?
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