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David Foster Wallace
“The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death.

It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:

"This is water."

"This is water."

It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.”
David Foster Wallace

Elizabeth George Speare
“He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze”
Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow

George Orwell
“A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.”
George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate.”
R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

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