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“You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking. ”
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“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”
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“Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint conclusion that the purpose of writing fiction was “a way out of loneliness.”
(NY Times article on the memorial service of David Foster Wallace.) ”
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(NY Times article on the memorial service of David Foster Wallace.) ”
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“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
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“-the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
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