David Foster Wallace
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And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you were right to be afraid all the time and never feel secure or trust me. I knew it'd be See, you're leaving after all when you promised you wouldn't. I knew it but I'm trying to explain anyway, okay? And I know you probably won't understand this either, but --wait-- just try to listen and maybe absorb this, okay? Ready? Me leaving is not the confirmation of all your fears about me. It is not. It's because of them. ✨ David Foster Wallace (2012). Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, p.16, Hachette UK

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