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Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.
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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There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.
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Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive this is why we tend to call even his weirdest stories nightmarish rather than surreal.
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So yo then man what's your story?
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Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.
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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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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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Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.
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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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People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.
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Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
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If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.
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It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility.
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Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.
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The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.
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...morning is the soul's night.
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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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Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.
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The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.
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The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
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She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.
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