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Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto.

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I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.'... 'I don't mind,' Hal said softly. 'I could wait forever.' 'That's what you think,' the voice said. The connection was cut.

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'So then at forty-six years of age I came here to learn to live by cliches,' is what Day says to Charlotte Treat right after Randy Lenz asked what time it was, again, at 0825. 'To turn my will and life over to the care of cliches. One day at a time. Easy does it. First things first. Courage is fear that has said its prayers. Ask for help. Thy will not mine be done. It works if you work it. Grow or go. Keep coming back.' [...] I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary. Could that be one? Could that be added to the cliche-pool? "No inflection necessary"? Too many syllables, probably.'

David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace

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Born: February 21, 1962

Died: September 12, 2008 (aged 46)

Bio: David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, short stories and essays, as well as a professor of English and creative writing.

Known for:

Infinite Jest (1996)
The Pale King
Consider the Lobster (2005)
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999)

Most used words:

people, time, choose, you, life, love, hard, real, death, day, deep, human, feel, feeling, fact

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