“Then He Looked Up, Despite All Best Prior Intentions. In Four Minutes, It Would Be Another Hour; A Half Hour After That Was The Ten-minute Break. Lane Dean Imagined Himself Running Around On The Break, Waving His Arms And Shouting Gibberish And Holding Ten Cigarettes At Once In His Mouth, Like A Panpipe. Year After Year, A Face The Same Color As Your Desk. Lord Jesus. Coffee Wasn't Allowed Because Of Spills On The Files, But On The Break He'd Have A Big Cup Of Coffee In Each Hand While He Pictured Himself Running Around The Outside Grounds, Shouting. He Knew What He'd Really Do On The Break Was Sit Facing The Wall Clock In The Lounge And, Despite Prayers And Effort, Count The Seconds Tick Off Until He Had To Come Back And Do This Again. And Again And Again And Again.”
— David Foster Wallace —

Related Authors

• Charles Baxter
• Frederick Knott
• Manitonquat
• Misty Copeland
• Ron Chernow
• Samantha Power
• Stan Moore
• Wendy Swore

Related Topics

• Quotes About Immigrants Coming To America

  “Ive always loved New York City and the idea of a cultural exchange: the immigrants coming to America.” — Mimi Kennedy

• Quotes About Ineffective Leadership

  “Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.” — George Foreman

• Love You For Life Quotes

  “By introducing you to yourself it enables you to discover for yourself the true meaning of life and thus enrich every moment of” — Venkatesananda Saraswati

• Little Toaster Quotes

  “The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely” — Douglas Adams

• Let Me Prove My Love Quotes

  “Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears, and” — Edmund Waller

• Death Dealing Quotes

  “The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before” — George Washington Carver

• Ballerina Tutu Quotes

  “I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in” — Lucy Hawking

• Clever Son Quotes

  “You may thank God you didnt want to be an actor, Tom, because you would have been a very bad one. You worked” — John Steinbeck