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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.
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I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit’sOKit’sOKit’sOK, over and over. From very far away.
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The man who knows his limitations, has none.
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She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.
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Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated as I am, and that some of these people probably have much harder, more tedious or painful lives than I do, overall.
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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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Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
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I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.
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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
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Mediocrity is contextual.
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Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.
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The fun of reading as an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk about.
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What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.
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Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.
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The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.
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We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a character's pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with their own. This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside. It might just be that simple.
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life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.
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My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.
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Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.
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