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“The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“A slightly uncommon condition of the some-long-word. Nothing at all serious, but it just needs putting right. A simple treatment.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Lymond's behaviour, as always, went to the limits of polite usage and then hurtled off into space.” — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
“He maintained his new fastidiousness without interruption, added to it an unwonted sparkle of eye and crispness of speech, and began little by little… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology. ” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: "The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And when he surfaces to a cramped hand, a crick in the neck, the sunlight shifted across the floor, a sore blink, he knows… — Jo Baker Copy Share Image
Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. — François Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Anguish is the most dangerous disease that makes you handicap for lifetime.” — Yash Thakur Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
