“… perversely, it is often more fun to want something than to have it.”
Source: Infinite Jest
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American fiction writer and essayist 1962–2008Related quotes
"Interview with R. Scott Bakker" http://www.sffworld.com/interview/7p0.html, SFFWorld.com, 2004-07-18 (accessed 2006-04-14)
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“Creating is more fun than consuming.”
http://www.paulglover.org/1111.html (Deep Green Jobs, book), 2011
Source: Anarchy after Leftism (1997), Chapter 1: Murray Bookchin, Grumpy Old Man
“It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.”
At a retreat in September 1982, as quoted in John Sculley and John A. Byrne, Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple – A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future (1987), p. 157
As quoted or paraphrased in Young Guns: The Fearless Entrepreneur's Guide to Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your Own (2009) by Robert Tuchman, p. 18
1980s
Variant: Why join the Navy . . . if you can be a pirate?
“Vocations drying up, nobody wants to be selfless any more, everybody wants their fun.”
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
Context: Now nuns have blended into everybody else or else faded away. Vocations drying up, nobody wants to be selfless any more, everybody wants their fun. No more nuns, no more rabbis. No more good people, waiting to have their fun in the afterlife. The thing about the afterlife, it kept this life within bounds somehow, like the Russians. Now there's just Japan, and technology, and the profit motive, and getting all you can while you can.