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“We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we’ve never even met?”

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What he said was, “this is water.” But he should have added: “there’s always more.”

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I see this all the time; people assuming that if they go to another beach, the waves will be smaller, or bigger, or cleaner, or more perfect. This would be like leaving a golf course mid-way through a round because there’s a few water hazards or sand traps.

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Here’s David Foster Wallace’s still-relevant 2005 Kenyon College commencement speech, now with added oomph. Listen up, recent grads!