March 2012
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You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you...
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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The true opponent, the enfolding boundary, is the player himself.
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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One of the positives to being visibly damaged is that people can sometimes...
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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Worship your intellect, being seen as smart - you will end up feeling stupid, a...
– David Foster Wallace, Graduation Speech to Kenyon College, Ohio
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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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Logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just...
– Jack Kerouac, Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
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The whole universe was crazy and cock-eyed and extremely strange.
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling...
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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Charles Bukowski, "As the Sparrow"
sharingpoetry:
To give life you must take life, and as our grief falls flat and hollow upon the billion-blooded sea I pass upon serious inward-breaking shoals rimmed with white-legged, white-bellied rotting creatures lengthily dead and rioting against surrounding scenes. Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is...
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What is he aching to do? What are we all aching to do? What do we want? She...
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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Being overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and...
– Jack Kerouac, Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947 - 1954
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There is no greater glory than to die for love.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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That is what he was: the shadow of someone whom no one had ever known.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad...
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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He was a different person: the lover who never showed his face, the man who gave...
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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Perhaps the greatest achievement of man is his ability to die, and his ability...
– Charles Bukowski, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook
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