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He couldn’t figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously...
– Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
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Nice people don’t necessarily fall in love with nice people.
– Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
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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
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Life’s endless war against the self you cannot live without.
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in...
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy...
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they...
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you. […] What is unfair can be a...
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I...
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick
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We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for....
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.
– David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
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It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens...
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest