"Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you."

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Source : David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.127, Hachette UK

David Foster Wallace

#Inspirational Quotes #Trying Quotes #Unfair Quotes

“You have to be on the pitch to play football.”
“Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by any section of the human race as Perfect Man has ever been imitated so minutely.The conduct of the founder of Christianity has not governed the ordinary life of his followers. Moreover, no founder of a religion has left on so solitary an eminence as the Muslim apostle.”
“Good travel books are novels at heart.”

Source : Recalled by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the NewYorkTimes, 26 Jan1987, reviewing Raban's novel Coasting (1986).
“The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.”
“It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.”
“Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?”

Source : Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson
“Sleep, my little one, sleep.”
“A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.211

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