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“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
― Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
― Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“In reality, every reader when he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. The reader’s recognition in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its truth.”
― Time Regained
― Time Regained

“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
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