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David Foster Wallace
“There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these are just the hazards of being free.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Stephen  King
“Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
Stephen King

Allie Brosh
“On a fundamental level, I am someone who would throw sand at children.”
Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

Philip K. Dick
“I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong.”
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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