David Foster Wallace quotes

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with …The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

Humor Truth Freedom

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay …Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

Inspirational Philosophy

Good fiction's job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the …Good fiction's job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Short Comfort Book

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, …The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

Freedom Love People

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by …It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

Humor

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being …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.

Relationship Humans Loneliness

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn't augur well for my …I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn't augur well for my longevity

Life Humor

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you …It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

Loneliness

I do things like getting in a taxi and say, 'The library, and step on …I do things like getting in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."

Book

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me …The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

Individuality






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