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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.

David Foster Wallace
Communication, Icons, People
David Foster Wallace (2005). “Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays”, p.157, Hachette UK
To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.