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Quote by David Foster Wallace

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”

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American novelist known for his unique literary style and profound insights into modern life. His works include 'Infinite Jest' and 'The Broom of the System'. more

“The afrit batted his eyelashes with a ostentatious lack of concern. "Indeed? Have you a name?" "A name?" I cried. "I have MANY names! I am Bartimaeus! I am Sakhr al-Jinni! I am N'gorso the Mighty and the Serpent of Silver Plumes!" I paused dramatically. The young man looked blank. "Nope never heard of you. Now if you'll just-”

Ifs Men Young Names Heard Concern Young Man Silver Als Cried Blank Serpent Eyelashes Ostentatious

Author:Jonathan Stroud

“If you’re the type of person who wants to associate exclusively with those who perfectly mirror your own ethical worldview, you’re reducing significantly the scope of your potential life experience.”

Ifs Want Persons Type Mirrors Ethical Life Experience Associates Scope Reducing Worldview

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame”

Moments Feelings Life Is Shame Series Confusion Embarrassing Feeling Alone Embarrassing Moment

Author:Miranda Hart

“I don’t stand a chance if he doesn't get better. You’ll never be able to let him go. You’ll always feel wrong about being with me.” “The way I always felt wrong kissing him because of you,” I say. Gale holds my gaze. “If I thought that was true, I could almost live with the rest of it.”

Ifs Way Feels Able Felt Chance Kissing Get Better Gale Mockingjay Because Of You Kissing Him Let Him Go

Book:Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.”

Heart Differences Simple Appreciation Selfish Teeth Sincere Flattery Unselfish Insincere Win Friends And Influence People Sincere Appreciation

Book:How to win friends & influence people

Source: How to win friends & influence people

“there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why should someone who's a complete stranger have any control over your sense of selfworth?”

Way Should Hurt Stranger Rejected Ignored

Book:The Game

Source: The Game

“When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere.”

Men Looks Eye Pleasure Brain Attractive Chemicals Elsewhere Dopamine Social Intelligence

Author:Daniel Goleman

“It's hard to say what makes the mind piece things together in a sudden lightning flash. I've come to hold the human spirit in the highest regard. Like the body, it struggles to repair itself. As cells fight off infection and conquer illness, the spirit, too, has remarkable resilience. It knows when it is harmed, and it knows she the harm is too much to bear. If it deems the injury too great, the spirit cocoons the wound, in the same fashion that the body forms a cyst around infection, until the time comes that it can deal with it.”

Source: Dreamfever: Fever Series

“Not everything is meant for all to hear.”

Book:When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see”

Want Looks Light Asks Born Darkness Shadow Blind Blinded

Book:When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

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