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David Foster Wallace

"She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red."

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Vera Miles

"Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic."

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Vera Miles

"A Vampire!" I stammered. Then I noticed her legs. Below the cheerleader skirt, her left leg was brown and shaggy with a donkey's hoof. Her right leg was shaped like a human leg was it was made of bronze. "Uhh, a vampire with-""Don't mention the legs!" Tammi snapped. "It's rude to make fun."

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Vera Miles

"She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red."

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Vera Miles

"She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it."

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Vera Miles

"Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown."

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Vera Miles

"She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts."

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David Foster Wallace
"Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly."

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David Foster Wallace
"This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway."

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David Foster Wallace
"This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it."

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David Foster Wallace
"The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be."

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David Foster Wallace
"People hate people, not freedom."

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David Foster Wallace
"A question, doctor," he said. "Why doesn't the coyote take the money he spends on bird costumes and catapults and radioactive road runner food pellets and explosive missiles and simply go eat Chinese?" He smiled coolly. "Why doesn't the coyote simply go eat Chinese food?"

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David Foster Wallace
"The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light."

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David Foster Wallace
"We're all on each other's food chain. All of us. It's an individual sport. Welcome to the meaning of individual. We're each deeply alone here. It's what we all have in common, this aloneness."

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David Foster Wallace
"A manual for how to build a mentally ill child."

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David Foster Wallace
"For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's."

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