David Foster Wallace quote: The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost ...

The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.

~ David Foster Wallace ~

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