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David Foster Wallace Quotes

You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writin? your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal.

David Foster Wallace

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