"When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces. The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one."

-- David Foster Wallace

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“What we see of the universe is vast. We know that the universe is something like 90 billion light-years across.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org
“Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.”
“The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine what they've said.”
“I'd love to travel more. I really look forward to traveling with my kids. I'm just waiting for them to want to travel with me.”
“Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for and expect much from men and women, and not to be disappointed and embittered if they fall short- to try to do good with people rather than to them- this is my religion on its human side. And if God exists, I think that he must be in the warm sun, in the kindly actions of the people we know and read of, in the beautiful things of art and nature, and in the closeness of friendships.”

Source : "The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918".
“You can apply the same heart, the same sense of euphoria to any genre.”
“Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them.”

Source : "Britain Ignores the Angry Muslims Within at Its Peril". The Sunday Times, November 04, 2001.
“Decent education in INdonesia is strictly for the elites, and those who are educated are using their knowledge to extract even more from the country, and not to improve it as a whole.”

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