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“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. It just did it way more well than wisely”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“No! No! Any conversation or interchange is better than none at all, to trust him on this, that the worst kind of gut-wrenching intergenerational interface is better than withdrawal or hiddenness on either side.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“and he also told me that I should rethink submitting my thesis.
He read your thesis.
He read three different drafts of it, actually.
Did he understand it?
Pretty much. He understood what was wrong with it.
And that was?
That nobody could understand it.”
― Stella Maris
He read your thesis.
He read three different drafts of it, actually.
Did he understand it?
Pretty much. He understood what was wrong with it.
And that was?
That nobody could understand it.”
― Stella Maris
“No one stopped to consider what the degradation might be doing to my psyche. At night Connie would sing me to sleep and tell me not to worry, because the real me was deep inside and safe. I love her dearly but in retrospect she had no idea what she was talking about.”
― CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
― CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
“Temporary madness makes it possible to forget the truth about bullets. Temporary madness, in war, is bravery's sister.
But when you seem crazy all the time, continuously, without stopping, that's when you make people afraid, even your war brothers. And that's when you stop being the brave one, the death-defier, and become instead the true friend of death, its accomplice, its more-than-brother.”
― At Night All Blood is Black
But when you seem crazy all the time, continuously, without stopping, that's when you make people afraid, even your war brothers. And that's when you stop being the brave one, the death-defier, and become instead the true friend of death, its accomplice, its more-than-brother.”
― At Night All Blood is Black
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