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Scott’s Quotes

“There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

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“The thing is you have to fight the whole time. You can't stop. Otherwise you just end up somewhere, bobbing in the middle of a life you never wanted.”
― Alexander Maksik, You Deserve Nothing

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“What Ryan had learned from this is that your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to convince yourself of.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

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“He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

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“The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

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