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David Foster Wallace

"This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws."

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"This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws."

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"It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art."
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"She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it."
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"There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture cannot do but that are urgent now: one is that by creating a character in a work of fiction you can allow a reader to leap over the wall of self and to allow him to imagine himself not only somewhere else but someone else in a way that television and movies, in a way that no other form can do. I think people are essentially lonely and alone and frightened of being alone."
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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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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
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"The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir."
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"The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits."
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"I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things."
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"It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it."
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"Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks ofmen. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can'tgrab onto."
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