“It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.”
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1963)
“That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people… That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.”
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David Foster Wallace
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Infinite Jest
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