“I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.”

—  David Foster Wallace

Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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American fiction writer and essayist 1962–2008

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