“...when he kneels at other times and prays or meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual understanding of God as he can understand Him, he feels Nothing — not nothing, but Nothing, an edgeless blankness that somehow feels worse than the sort of unconsidered atheism he Came In with.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
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