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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

Book by David Foster Wallace · 4 quotes · This Is Water, Attentiveness, Mindfulness

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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life Quotes

“The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.”

“It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoot themselves in...the head. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger.”