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The point of books is to combat loneliness.

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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New York
David Wallace
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Loneliness
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You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.
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Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.
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...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.
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Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people.
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...morning is the soul's night.
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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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The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.
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TV's real agenda is to be liked, because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this it's its sole raison.
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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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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham would be great fiction writers, and by any but the most commercial standards they're not even very good.
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In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.
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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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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.
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There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.
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So yo then man what's your story?
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The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
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There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.
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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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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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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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