“Mediocrity is contextual.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
― Democracy in America
― Democracy in America
“I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
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