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“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
Zdroj: Infinite Jest
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
Zdroj: Infinite Jest
Zdroj: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“… logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.”
Zdroj: Infinite Jest
“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
An Interview by Larry McCaffery
Essays
Varianta: I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
“… it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.”
Zdroj: Infinite Jest
“The man who knows his limitations, has none.”
Zdroj: Infinite Jest
Zdroj: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
“There’s been time this whole time. You can’t kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.”
Zdroj: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Varianta: That everyone is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. That this isn't necessarily perverse.
Zdroj: Infinite Jest (1996)
Essays
Zdroj: Kenyon College Commencement Speech, April 21, 2005, published as This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life.
“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.”
Zdroj: Infinite Jest
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
Zdroj: The Pale King (2011)
“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”
Zdroj: Infinite Jest
“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”
Zdroj: Infinite Jest
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Essays
Kontext: I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.
Big Red Son, p. 9
Consider the Lobster (2007)
Kontext: Nor let us forget Vegas's synecdoche and beating heart. It's kitty-corner from Bally's: Caesar's Palace. The granddaddy. As big as 20 walmarts end to end. Real marble and fake marble, carpeting you can pass out on without contusion, 130,000 square feet of casion alone. Domed ceilings, clerestories, barrel vaults. In Caesars Palace is America conceived as a new kind of Rome: conqueror of its own people. An empire of self.
Zdroj: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments