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“Life is essentially one long search for an ashtray.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“That is the central double standard in ethnic racism: loving one’s position on the ladder above other ethnic groups and hating one’s position below that of other ethnic groups. It is angrily trashing the racist ideas about one’s own group but happily consuming the racist ideas about other ethnic groups. It is failing to recognize that racist ideas we consume about others came from the same restaurant and the same cook who used the same ingredients to make different degrading dishes for us all.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“You’re wearing that bow tie, after all. Isn’t that rather an invitation to a young sir?”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings’ windpipe and a Glock 9 mm. to the feelings’ temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest