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Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it. (David Foster Wallace)
The man who knows his limitations, has none. View quote
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Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still. View quote
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True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care-with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world. View quote
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Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly. View quote
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I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. View quote
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Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself. View quote
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We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves. View quote
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I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn't augur well for my longevity. View quote
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Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around. View quote
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I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them. (David Foster Wallace)
Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier"). View quote
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There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it. View quote
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Mediocrity is contextual. View quote
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What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant. View quote
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Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else. View quote
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The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die. View quote
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Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith. . . . Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. View quote
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Real leaders are people who "help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own. View quote
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The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection. View quote
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I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel. (David Foster Wallace)
To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people. View quote
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Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. View quote
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I never, even for a moment, doubted what they'd told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt's complete absence. They have forgotten. View quote
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There are very few innocent sentences in writing. View quote
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