Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
“We’ve become trapped in a world of dreams, a world in which we live primarily in our minds.”
― Falling Into Grace
― Falling Into Grace
“Don, I’m perfect. I’m so beautiful I drive anybody with a nervous system out of their fucking mind. Once they’ve seen me they can’t think of anything else and don’t want to look at anything else and stop carrying out normal responsibilities and believe that if they can only have me right there with them at all times everything will be all right. Everything. Like I’m the solution to their deep slavering need to be jowl to cheek with perfection.’ ‘Now with the sarcasm.’ ‘I am so beautiful I am deformed.’ ‘Now with the nonrespectful acting-out of treating me like I’m stupid for trying to get her to walk through her fear to give a straight-out No, which she isn’t willing.’ ‘I am deformed with beauty.’ ‘You want to see my professional Staff face here’s my Staff face. I nod and smile, I treat you like somebody I have to humor by nodding and smiling, and behind the face I’m going with my finger around and around my temple like What a fucking yutz, like Where’s the net.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
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