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Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

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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Ithica
New York
David Wallace
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Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
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The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.
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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'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers.
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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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...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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Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
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the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs go, but yet of course we should always remember that a deep need for anything from other people makes us easy pickings.
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I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.
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Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
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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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One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.
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I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.
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It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.
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Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.
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She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.
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I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.
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If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are not as alive and interesting as I meant them to be.
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