"Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?"

-- David Foster Wallace

#Life Quotes #Differences Quotes #People Quotes

“Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.”
“I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs.”
“I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a producer or engineer is ethically indefensible. The band write the songs. The band play the music. It's the band's fans who buy the records. The band is responsible for whether it's a great record or a horrible record. Royalties belong to the band. I would like to be paid like a plumber. I do the job and you pay me what it's worth.”
“If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.”
“Marketing is everything and everything is marketing,”
“And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done? Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young.”
“I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.”
“Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.”

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