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“So compelling is the evidence of our own eyes and ears, so swift is your mind to assemble your own version of the story, that one of the hardest things in this world is to understand there’s another way of seeing things.”
― This Is Happiness
― This Is Happiness
“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“We have been trained for goodness. Men, meanwhile, have been trained for power.”
― On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good
― On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good
“Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?”
― Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
― Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
“You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of "the artist" and the all-sufficiency of "art" and "beauty" and "love," back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, to the cottage in Bermuda, away from all the strife and conflict of the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time--back home to the escapes of Time and Memory. In a way, the phrase summed up everything he had ever learned.”
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