"Or I can choose to force myself to……" — David Foster Wallace
"Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated as I am, and that some of these people probably have much harder, more tedious or painful lives than I do, overall."
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303 Quotes by David Foster Wallace
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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare…
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I…
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I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not…
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I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
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I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do.…
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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