Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyo…

David Foster Wallace
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Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated as I am, and that some of these people probably have much harder, more tedious or painful lives than I do, overall. ✨ David Foster Wallace (2009). This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, p.87, Hachette UK
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