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We love things to death, now. Then we retire to the Hamptons.
- David Foster Wallace (via nevver)
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The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flame yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don‘t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.
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Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
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Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.
- INFINITE JEST, DAVID FOSTER WALLACE. (via thebookthieves)
everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
- David Foster Wallace (via rudyhertz)
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The problem with video calling is that even though you can see the other person, it’s impossible to make eye contact because the screen and camera are not in the same place.
They were the age staring down the barrel not of Is anything true but of Am I true, of What am I, of What is this thing, and it made then strange.
- Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace (via labeledboners)
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You believe you would die twice for another but in truth would die only for your alone self, its sentiment
- - Marathe, Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace (via survivaloftheillest)
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Evil people never believe they’re evil, but rather that everyone else is evil.
- Infinite Jest (via histrionicintrovert)
