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You Cannot Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot…
- The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly…
- life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.
- Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough…
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