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This is Water
David Foster Wallace, in his popular “This Is Water” commencement address at Kenyon College in Ohio in 2005, said, “Learning how to think really means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you wil
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Trying to hold Deep Thoughts in my mind had always been so exhausting. Look at that flower. Wow. We live in a world with flow . . . Ah, fuck it. My mind gets tired so easily. But shutting it off and limiting my choices to just “Yes, thank you” helped me see from my heart, not my head.
Pete Holmes • Comedy Sex God
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.”
— David Foster Wallace, This is Water
— David Foster Wallace, This is Water