"...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about."

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David Foster Wallace

#Reality Quotes #Important Quotes #Obvious Quotes

“I think some of the big characters, you know, they do these adventures, but they've got something about them, they've got this charisma, and they've got to have a sense of humor. Because whether it be very dry, or very silly, they've got to be likable.”
“Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist." "Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad." "That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.”

Source : Lee Goldberg (2011). “Mr. Monk on the Couch”, p.49, Penguin
“At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.”

Source : "Is it a bird?". The Sunday Times, July 27, 1997.
“I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.”
“I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.”
“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
“I'ma forgive all the people that took my kindness as weakness. I'ma forgive anyone who never hit me back. I'ma forgive all ya'll. I won't forget.”
“The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterdayâ€™s love is part of todayâ€™s and the confidence in tomorrowâ€™s love is also part of todayâ€™s. And when one dies, the memory lives in the other, and is warm and breathing. And when both die - I almost believe, rationalist though I am - that somewhere it remains, indestructible and eternal, enriching all of the universe by the mere fact that once it existed.”

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