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TOPHER AVERY is broke & hungry near LA. He reads Infinite Jest once a year.
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“I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it’s always possible she’ll make one with you.”
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“…[A] mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
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“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be kicked in the nuts as soon as they try to get up. That wasn’t in the Bible, but maybe it should’ve been.”
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“A marriage was like a house under construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a cottage; one that had gone on for twenty-seven years was a huge and rambling mansion.”
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“But how do you get rid of a god? Is there any religion where they teach you that? How to get your god off your back if he gets too obnoxious? No. All you ever get is advice on how to bribe them to leave you alone for a few minutes.”
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“I’m talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you’re maybe wrong, that you ought to have when acting as a scientist.”
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“‘Don’t ever forget; to the senseless nothing is more maddening than sense.’”
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“As far as Roland was concerned, God ‘o the Cross was just another religion which taught that love and murder were inextricably bound together – that in the end, God always drank blood.”
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“She’d come from a long line of lonely women. Women who’d come to take pride in it, overlay it with competence, independence and hard work. And despise any woman so weak she gave into it.”
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“The others could die, they were extras in the movie of his life, but not Ray Garraty, star of that long-running hit film, The Ray Garraty Story. Maybe he would eventually come to understand the untruth of that emotionally as well as intellectually…”
