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“a pocket full of spare change and anger unlimited, what more does a 30-year-old innocent need to make his way in the city?”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

“I preferred not to respond. (Although several replies occurred to me.)”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.”
― David Foster Wallace, Up, Simbal!: 7 Days on the Trail of an Anticandidate

“We live lives that are waveforms constantly changing with time, now positive, now negative. Only at moments of great serenity is it possible to find the pure, the informationless state of signal zero.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

“The summer groaned forward like a mail truck overloaded with disturbing photographs from Denmark.”
― Adam Resnick, Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“We're a family that takes its home entertainment very seriously.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System