"To be really human is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naive and goo-prone and generally pathetic, is to be on some basic interior way forever infantile."
from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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"For lonely people are usually lonely not because of hideous deformity or odor or obnoxiousness… Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly."
from “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction” by David Foster Wallace (in his collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again)
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