David Foster Wallace

kids get exposed very early to the idea that "you are the most important" and "what you are is the most important" and "your job in life is to gratify your own desires"...that's not happiness, that feeling of having to obey every impulse and gratify every desire, it seems to me to be a strange kind of slavery, nobody talks about it as such tough, they talk about freedom of choice, and you have the right to have things...

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Infinite jest awaits on my nightstand.

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