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1 " Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. "
― David Foster Wallace , The David Foster Wallace Reader
2 " Because all these people have, you see, by this time already killed themselves, where it really counts. By the time these people swallow entire medicine cabinets or take naps in the garage or whatever, they’ve already been killing themselves for ever so long. When they ‘commit suicide’, they’re just being orderly. "
3 " As everything becomes bad in you, all the good goes out of the world like air out of a big broken balloon. "
4 " Forever Overhead"No time is passing outside you at all. It is amazing. The late ballet below is slow motion, the overbroad movements of mimes in blue jelly. If you wanted you could really stay here forever, vibrating inside so fast you float motionless in time, like a bee over something sweet. "
5 " It says: ‘Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful. "
6 " It’d be like casting a ballot for Stalin: you are voting for an end to all voting. "
7 " desire is the sugar in human food. "
8 " light sharp bitter tint "