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Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there."Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself. J. K. Rowling
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea! Carl Jung
Recursive metafiction worships the narrative consciousness, makes “it” the subject of the text. Minimalism’s even worse, emptier, because it’s a fraud: it eschews not only self-reference but any narrative personality at all, tries to pretend there “is” no narrative consciousness in its text. This is so fucking American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it. -Interview with Larry McCaffery (1993) David Foster Wallace
There is something deeply surreal about standing behind a female performer in hotpink peau de soie, a woman whose clitoris and perineum you have priorly seen, and watching her try to get a microwaved egg roll onto her plate with a cocktail fork. David Foster Wallace
Science cannot solve ultimate mystry of nature and that is because in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of mystry that we trying to solve Max Planck
The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely on her shoulders now. She was twenty-five and looked it, and so there as no longer any need to try to be attractive. Margaret Mitchell
Paulo Coelho quote: "We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we..."
We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are. Paulo Coelho
Samuel Beckett quote: "NO MATTER. TRY AGAIN. FAIL AGAIN. FAIL BETTER."
NO MATTER. TRY AGAIN. FAIL AGAIN. FAIL BETTER. Samuel Beckett
The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else. J. K. Rowling
I'm up there trying to do my Chore. I've got the men's bathroom. There's something... Pat there's something in the toilet up there. That won't flush. The thing. It won't go away. It keeps reappearing. Flush after flush. I'm only here for instructions. Possibly also protective equipment. I couldn't even describe the thing in the toilet. All I can say is if it was produced by anything human then I have to say I'm worried. Don't even ask me to describe it. If you want to go up and have a look,... David Foster Wallace
I too tried to look at matter from a more generous perspective: I didn't succeed. but now I've gained courage; I've reached the depths and discovered that there is light at the bottom. Paulo Coelho
Idries Shah quote: "No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people..."
No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble. Idries Shah
The things one feels are different about oneself are the things that are rare, that give each person their value - and these are the things they try to repress. The imitate and make out they love life! Andre Gide
She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision. Edith Wharton
But that's not a very original idea, is it? It's really just a platitude ... sort of like a Florida sunset, Nevertheless, it happens to be the truth, and the truth deserves to be spoken... if you can say it in a new way, I tried to put it in a picture. Stephen King

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