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Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
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“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”
“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.”
“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”
“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”
“That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.”
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dyslexia, humor, god, infinite-jest, longing, loneliness, agnosticism, truth, pain, ads, dogs, advertising, insomnia, books, anxiety, freedom
