David Foster Wallace
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"It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak."
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Infinite Jest
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David Foster Wallace
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"Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you."
David Foster Wallace
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"It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know."
David Foster Wallace
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"...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth."
David Foster Wallace
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"There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness."
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"Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"
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"No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable."
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"Try to let what is unfair teach you."
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"Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?"
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"My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it."
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