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The Soul is Not a Smithy QUOTES

The Soul is Not a Smithy QUOTES

1 " I acknowledge that I could never convey just what was so dreadful about this tableau of a bright, utterly silent room full of men immersed in work. It was the type of nightmare whose terror is less about what you see than about the feeling you have in your chest and stomach about what you’re seeing. "

― David Foster Wallace , The Soul is Not a Smithy

2 " The conjoined dogs were too distant to ascertain whether they had collars or tags, yet close enough that I could make out the expression on the face of the dominant dog above. It was blank and at the same time fervid—the same general expression as on a human being’s face when he is doing something that he feels compulsively driven to do and yet does not understand just why he wants to do it. "

― David Foster Wallace , The Soul is Not a Smithy

3 " What teachers and the administration in that era never appeared to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration. "

― David Foster Wallace , The Soul is Not a Smithy