"Good literature makes your head throb heartlike"

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David Foster Wallace

#Literature Quotes

“I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.”
“Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.”
“The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.”
“I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'”
“Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.”
“I didn't humiliate him by pointing it out because that's not how you treat friends. You don't judge them. You don't humiliate them. I bet he's been judging me all along.”
“We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.”
“The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.”

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