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David Foster

"This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out,"

Source : "David Foster Wallace's Legendary Graduation Speech Is Now An Awesome Short Film". "This Is Water" Speech at Kenyon College, www.businessinsider.com. 2005.

David Foster

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“In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.”
“Whenever there is a big game and people don't think I can do it, I always play my hardest, and now it has become a part of me.”

Source : The IGN Interview, www.ign.com. August 26, 2005.
“A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.”
“The family is the foundation for love and for maintaining spirituality”
“We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they are among the most beautiful things we have.”
“Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.”
“Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.”

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