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It feels intensely twisted to see reigning industry queen Jenna Jameson chilling out at the Vivid booth in Jordaches and a latex bustier and to know already that she has a tattoo of a sundered valentine with the tagline Heart Breaker on her right buttock and a tiny hairless ole just left of her anus.

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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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The point here is ... to be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.
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I find in myself a need to get very away.
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She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.
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My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.
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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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Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.
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Worship power - you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart - you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.
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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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People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.
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