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"I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?"
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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."
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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."
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"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."
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"Red sky at night, the city's alight."
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"Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism."
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"The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster Wallace."
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"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."
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"It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death."
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"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking."
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"Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die."
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"He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth."
Forgiveness
"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."
Education
"I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe s cold and painful indifference to us."
Philosophy
"It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."
Change
"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
Literature
"I would not be dying if it were not for her. I would have stayed home, as I have always stayed home, and I would have been safe, and I would have done the one thing I have always wanted to do, which is to grow up."
Life
"Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust."
Emotion
"I'm not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore."
Emotion
"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."
Emotion
"But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended."
Fiction
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