David Wallace
David Wallace
A brilliant but troubled author, he is best known for Infinite Jest (1996) and other philosophically complex novels. He committed suicide at the age of forty-six.
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 February 1962
CityIthaca, NY
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That has been the story of our year. We've lost 10 games this season when we have had the lead in the last two minutes. Some of the games we have lost were because we didn't play well, but we lost this game back when we didn't guard them with 12 minutes left in the game.
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We knew coming into the playoffs that our pitching staff was our strength.
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We had them scared and we had a chance to put them away early. We should have been up 12 or 15 points in the first half, but we let them stay in the game.
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They made some good pitches and we had some hard balls right at guys. That's baseball. That's the way it goes.
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This fun-filled family event will have a variety of food and drinks from the 18 vendors at Sunset Village along with a Kids' Corner, comprising of a number of games including the bouncing castle, Ice-Cream, Hoopla, Bingo and a Three on Three Basketball Tournament with Local Government playing the Members of Parliament, in a special challenge match that will highlight the competition.
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Avoiding any reference to the pop would mean either being retrograde about what's "permissible" in serious art or else writing about some other world.
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Yuppies, I guess, and younger intellectuals, whatever. These are the people pretty much all the younger writers I admire are writing for, I think.
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My hope is that they would be convicted and put behind bars. They'll never stop doing this unless they get help. We're not doing them any favors by letting them be free.
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It comes down to community involvement and paying back to a district that gave so much to me as a student.
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Here's an analogy. The invention of calculus was shocking because for a long time it had simply been presumed that you couldn't divide by zero.
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But, again, the last twenty years have seen big changes in how writers engage their readers, what readers need to expect from any kind of art.
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Because this is not a race all boats, regardless of their engine size can enter, the winner will be determined by the draw of the card and not how fast your boat can run.
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I would support anything that will help the community to grow. Where there is a vacant lot, I would love to see development. I would love to see more retail. I would love to see more homes.
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and take risks whenever you think it is right.