What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more … - David Foster Wallace

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I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.

David Foster Wallace

What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.

Fast, Given, Goes On, Littles, Tiny

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If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

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I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.

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You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness. . . has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.

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I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

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Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

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Alice Sebold

She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. ~pg 29, Susie's sister Lindsey dealing with grief.

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David Lynch

I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don't care what else happens.

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Rafael Yglesias

Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

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Gloria Swanson

I am a very pragmatic person.

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Thomas Jefferson