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“Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'
What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing”
― White Noise
What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing”
― White Noise
“I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.”
― The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
― The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
“Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"
"I give."
"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
― Infinite Jest
"I give."
"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
― Infinite Jest
“...in real life I always seem to have a hard time winding up a conversation or asking somebody to leave, and sometimes the moment becomes so delicate and fraught with social complexity that I'll get overwhelmed trying to sort out all the different possible ways of saying it and all the different implications of each option and will just sort of blank out and do it totally straight -- 'I want to terminate the conversation and not have you be in my apartment anymore' -- which evidently makes me look either as if I'm very rude and abrupt or as if I'm semi-autistic and have no sense of how to wind up a conversation gracefully...I've actually lost friends this way.”
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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