Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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7 years, 6 months ago

World War Two

[...] probably each generation has different things that force the generation to grow up. Maybe for our grandparents it was World War Two. You know? For us, it's gonna be that at, at a certain point, that we're either gonna have to put away childish things and discipline ourself about how much time…

—p.86 Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 6 months ago

empty and unhappy

You know, why are we--and by "we" I mean people like you and me: mostly white, upper middle class or upper class, obscenely well educated, doing really interesting jobs, sitting in really expensive chairs, watching the best, you know, watching the most sophisticated electronic equipment money…

—p.82 by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 6 months ago

candy

Y'like candy?

Yeah. Of course.

What if you ate it all the time? What would be wrong with that?

Bad for teeth and very fat very quick.

Real pleasurable, but it dudn't have any calories in it. There's somethin' really vital about food that candy's missing, although to make up for what…

—p.79 by David Foster Wallace
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affirmation from the exterior

[...] And then you get, like, you start being able to make a living. So you get all that affirmation from the exterior, that when you're a young person you think will make everything all right. [...] But to realize--like you say, when it happens to you, when you realize, "Holy shit, this _doesn…

—p.70 by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 6 months ago

Educated Republicans

Educated Republicans: the racism here is very quiet, very systematic.

—p.45 by David Foster Wallace