“This volume probably contains more promises and less evidence per page than has any publication since the invention of printing,” the Nobel physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi wrote in his review of Dianetics for Scientific American.”
― Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
― Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
“Another thing he laid in when he’d committed himself to one last marijuana vacation was petroleum jelly.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“The only casting directors who’d be willing to call Tommy in on the basis of this headshot were the ones curious about what it was like to be murdered. I”
― The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
― The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
“American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
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