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“I have too much free time. Free time makes people think; thinking makes people morbidly self-absorbed; and unless you are watertight and flawless, excessive self-absorption leads to depression. That’s why depression is the number-two disease in the world, behind Internet porn eyestrain.”
― A Fraction of the Whole
― A Fraction of the Whole
“وقتی اینهمه تلاش میکنی یک نفر را فراموش کنی، خود این تلاش تبدیل به خاطره میشود. بعد باید فراموش کردن را فراموش کنی و خود این هم در خاطر میماند.”
― A Fraction of the Whole
― A Fraction of the Whole
“مردم همیشه شکایت میکنند که چرا کفش ندارن تا اینکه یه روز آدمی رو میبینن که پا نداره و بعد غر میزنن که چرا ویلچر اتوماتیک ندارن. چرا؟ چی باعث میشه که به طور ناخودآگاه خودشون رو از یه سیستم ملالآور به یکی دیگه پرت کنن؟ چرا اراده فقط معطوفه به جزئیات و نه کلیات؟ چرا به جای اینکه «کجا باید کار کنم؟» نمیگیم «چرا باید کار کنم؟» چرا به جای «چرا باید تشکیل خانواده بدم؟» میگیم «کی باید تشکیل خانواده بدم؟»”
― A Fraction of the Whole
― A Fraction of the Whole
“You know what your problem is?” she’d say (that’s how she always began). “You hate yourself and so you hate others. It’s just sour grapes. You’re too busy reading and thinking about big things. You don’t care about the little things in your own life, and that means you’re contemptuous of anyone who does. You’ve never struggled like they have, because you’ve never cared like they do. You don’t really know what people go through.”
― A Fraction of the Whole
― A Fraction of the Whole
“I concluded that my father had tried to erase any image of his brother so he might forget him. The futility of the attempt was obvious; when you put in that much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.”
― A Fraction of the Whole
― A Fraction of the Whole
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