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Die Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death,…
- If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you…
- To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print,…
- Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness.…
- The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.
- Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.
- Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?
- Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.
- You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.
- I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a…
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