Sadrach Pierre

“That a person who did something for somebody's gratitude was more like a 2-D cutout image of a person than a bona fide person.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Many first possess wealth, and are then possessed by it.”
― Ludwig Klages

“Time wasn't passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed tits of a man who disdains the care of his once-comely bod.”
― David Foster Wallace , Infinite Jest

“By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through which we effectively, if often unthinkingly, reduce his life chances. We construct a stigma-theory, an ideology to explain his inferiority and account for the danger he represents, sometimes rationalizing an animosity based on other differences, such as those of social class.”
― Erving Goffman, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity