May 2012
25 posts
May 16th
187 notes
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May 16th
87 notes
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May 16th
77 notes
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“Life can be painless, provided that there is sufficient peacefulness for a dozen...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick 
May 16th
35 notes
6 tags
May 15th
21 notes
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“The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick 
May 15th
643 notes
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May 15th
43 notes
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May 14th
59 notes
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“When I hear a man proclaiming himself as an ‘average, honest, open...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Rich Boy 
May 14th
61 notes
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May 14th
99 notes
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“Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being,...”
– Jonathan Franzen, How to be Alone: Essays 
May 11th
62 notes
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May 11th
454 notes
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May 11th
102 notes
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“You never stop waiting for the real story to start, because the only real story...”
– Jonathan Franzen, The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History 
May 9th
52 notes
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May 9th
102 notes
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May 9th
88 notes
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“You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom...”
– Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
May 8th
651 notes
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May 8th
66 notes
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May 8th
42 notes
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“But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.”
– Jonathan Franzen, How to be Alone: Essays 
May 5th
537 notes
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May 5th
44 notes
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May 5th
105 notes
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May 2nd
51 notes
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“The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative,...”
– Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
May 2nd
130 notes
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May 2nd
129 notes
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May 1st
88 notes
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May 1st
74 notes
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“He couldn’t figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously...”
– Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections 
May 1st
438 notes
April 2012
60 posts
6 tags
Apr 30th
116 notes
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“Nice people don’t necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
– Jonathan Franzen, Freedom 
Apr 30th
638 notes
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Apr 30th
120 notes
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Apr 28th
31 notes
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“If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.”
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King 
Apr 28th
73 notes
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Apr 28th
65 notes
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Apr 26th
17 notes
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“To really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the...”
– David Foster Wallace, The Best American Essays 2007
Apr 26th
76 notes
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Apr 26th
73 notes
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“Life’s endless war against the self you cannot live without.”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Apr 25th
150 notes
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Apr 25th
61 notes
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Apr 25th
69 notes
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“American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Apr 24th
77 notes
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Apr 24th
72 notes
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Apr 24th
151 notes
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“God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Apr 22nd
239 notes
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Apr 22nd
38 notes
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Apr 22nd
64 notes
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“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Apr 20th
731 notes
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Apr 20th
118 notes
6 tags
Apr 20th
183 notes
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Apr 19th
52 notes