“And I submit that this is what the real, no-shit 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.”

—  David Foster Wallace

Kenyon College Commencement Speech.
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American fiction writer and essayist 1962–2008

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