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• It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else suffered the same secret fears and inadequacies as I, and that feeling alone and inferior was actually the great valent bond between us all. I wish I’d been smart enough to understand that when I was an adolescent.

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  Smart, Book, Years

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• What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.

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  Goes On, Littles, Tiny

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• cada fracaso es también una victoria.

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  Victoria

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• Y no nos equivoquemos: la ironía nos tiraniza. La razón por la que nuestra omnipresente ironía cultural es a la vez tan poderosa y tan insatisfactoria es que es imposible identificar a un ironista. Toda la ironía estadounidense se basa en un implícito "no quiero decir realmente lo que estoy diciendo". Entonces, ¿qué quiere decir la ironía como norma cultural? ¿Que es imposible querer decir lo que se dice? ¿Que quizá sea una pena que sea imposible, pero que hay que despertarse y oler el café de una vez? Lo más probable, creo, es que la ironía de hoy acabe diciendo: "Qué banal por tu parte preguntar qué quiero decir realmente.

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  Poderoso, Error, Café

  David Foster Wallace (2012). "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", p.55, Hachette UK.

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• Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

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  Alive, Conscious

  "David Foster Wallace's Kenyon Commencement Speech" by Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. September 19, 2008.

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• La mayoría de los escritores que conozco son extraños híbridos. Hay una fuerte vena de egolatría unida a una timidez extrema. Escribir es una especie de exhibicionismo en privado. Y también hay una extraña soledad, y un deseo de mantener algún tipo de conversación con la gente, pero no una gran capacidad para hacerlo en persona.

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  Fuerte, Real, Soledad

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• There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.

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  Sadness, Hatred, My Love For You

  David Foster Wallace (2004). “The Broom of the System: A Novel”, p.187, Penguin

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• Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

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  Acceptance, Matter, Fatigue

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• I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

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  Pensamiento, Gente, Confusión

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• It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

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  Significa, Atención, Pagar

  David Foster Wallace (2009). “This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life”, p.56, Hachette UK

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• I am not what you see and hear.

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  "Infinite Jest".

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• There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.

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  Kindness, Anxiety Attacks, Infinite Jest

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

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  Inspirational, Believe, Tree

  "The Pale King". Book by David Foster Wallace, www.nytimes.com. 2011.

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• The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

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  Thinking, Different, Used

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• Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion - these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

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  Sex, Loneliness, Party

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• Good literature makes your head throb heartlike

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  Literature, Good Literature

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• ...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

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  Seductive, Syndromes, Tourettes

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.715, Hachette UK

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• ...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

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  Reality, Important, Obvious

  David Foster Wallace (2009). “This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.

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  People, Attention, Pay Attention

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• K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget.

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  Men, Want, Needs

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men”, p.121, Hachette UK

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• The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.

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  Rejection, Connections, Painful

  David Foster Wallace (2004). “The Broom of the System: A Novel”, p.171, Penguin

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• Hay dos peces jóvenes nadando y se encuentran con un pez más viejo nadando en dirección contraria, que les saluda con la cabeza y les dice: "Buenos días, chicos. ¿Cómo está el agua? Y los dos jóvenes nadan un rato, hasta que uno de ellos mira al otro y dice: "¿Qué demonios es el agua?

  David Foster Wallace

  Mañana, Natación, Chicos

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". 19 de septiembre de 2008.

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• To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

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  Communication, Icons, People

  David Foster Wallace (2005). “Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• Pero si realmente has aprendido a pensar, a prestar atención, sabrás que tienes otras opciones. Estará en tu mano experimentar una situación abarrotada, ruidosa, lenta, de consumo infernal, no sólo como algo significativo, sino como algo sagrado, que arde con la misma fuerza que encendió las estrellas: la compasión, el amor, la unidad subsuperficial de todas las cosas.

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  Meaningful, Stars, Compassion

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. 19 de septiembre de 2008.

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• Ciertas personas sinceramente devotas y espiritualmente avanzadas creen que el Dios de su entendimiento les ayuda a encontrar aparcamiento y les aconseja sobre la misa. Los números de la lotería.

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  Creer, Números, Gente

  David Foster Wallace (2011). "Infinite Jest", p.147, Hachette UK

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