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“The act of staring is a thing which one does not ordinarily do to another human being; it seems to put the object stared at in a class apart. One does not talk to a monkey in a zoo, or to a freak in a sideshow— one only stares.”
― Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings
― Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings
“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.”
― Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
― Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
“Your personal will is the web your disease sits and spins in. The will you call your own ceased to be yours as of who knows how many Substance-drenched years ago.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Life is essentially one long search for an ashtray.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“What if heredity, instead of linear, is branching? What if it's not arousal that's so finitely circumscribed? What if in fact there were only like two really distinct individual people walking back there in history's mist? That all difference descends from this difference? The whole and the partial. The damaged and the intact. The deformed and the paralyzingly beautiful. The insane and the attendant. The hidden and the blindingly open. The performer and the audience. No Zen-type one, always rather two, one upside down in a convex lens.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
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