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"If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything." - David Foster Wallace

Interview by Leonard Lopate, WNYC
March 4, 1996

Interview originally aired on the Leonard Lopate Show
wnyc.org/shows/lopate/1996/mar/04

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