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“Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.”
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“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
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“Mediocrity is contextual.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own; i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people.”
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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