Ian

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.”
― James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin (Literary Conversations Series)

“he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“... That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest