"One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others."

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You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in your imagination, and you're supposed to go buy groceries and talk to people at parties and stuff.

— David Foster Wallace