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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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I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things.
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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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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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Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.
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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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Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.
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The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.
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Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.
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life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.
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The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.
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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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