• To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

  Source: Consider the Lobster (2005) 157

  David Foster Wallace
  American author 1962-2008
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1. communication
2. incapable
3. living
4. people

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To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people. by : David Foster Wallace

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