There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The hubris of man cannot hope to fathom the infinite jest that is woman.” — Trevor E. Donaldson Copy Share Image
Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic? — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The really important kind of freedom involves being able truly to care about other people. — David Foster Copy Share Image
“I had to face: I had chosen. My choice, this was love. I had chosen I think the way out of the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Infinite Jest specifically: an endlessly, compulsively entertaining book that stingily withholds from readers the core pleasures of mainstream novelistic entertainment, among them… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Infinite Jest is a masterpiece,” Harvey had said. “Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, when it came out in 1995, 'Infinite Jest' became a cultural event. It was the massive book that was… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“He had finished and collected the three years of drafts [of Infinite Jest] , and finally sat down and typed the whole… — David Lipsky Copy Share Image
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
…there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“ Infinite Jest not only says that being human is hard work; it makes us work hard. It not only suggests we… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“(She) says that she's finding it especially hard to take when these earnest ravaged folks at the lectern say they're 'Here But… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Some people, from what I've seen, boo, when they lie, they become very still and centered and their gaze very concentrated and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“And then also, again, still, what are those boundaries, if they’re not baselines, that contain and direct its infinite expansion inward, that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Suffice it to say I was compelled to create this group in order to find everyone who is, let's say, borrowing liberally… — Sarah Schmelling Copy Share Image
“For heaven’s sake, what kind of question is that? Would you want to be friends with Humbert Humbert? Would you want to… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“it turned out that there was something terribly stressful about visual telephone interfaces that hadn't been stressful at all about voice-only interfaces.… — David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest Copy Share Image
“The root of addict in latin is the word addicere, which means religious devotion. It was an attribute of beginning monks. There… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“IT’S HARDLY a coincidence that “Shipping Out,” Wallace’s most well-known essay, appeared only a month before Infinite Jest, his most well-known novel,… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“…the Crocodiles say they can't even begin to say how many new guys they've seen Come In and then get sucked back… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
![“[The entire text of Infinite Jest.]” quote by David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1f5/david-foster-wallace-161_infinite_the-entire-text-of-infinite-jest-2415929_2415929.jpg)
![“You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.” quote by Harold Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/129/harold-bloom-3350_awful_you-know-i-don-t-want-to-be-offensive-bu_754760.png)
![“He had finished and collected the three years of drafts [of Infinite Jest] , and finally sat down and typed the whole thing. Wallace didn't really type; he input the giant thing twice, with one finger. "But a really fast finger.” quote by David Lipsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5c9/david-lipsky-30389_david-foster-wallace_he-had-finished-and-collected-the-three_3171441.jpg)
![“…there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an "end" can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed…” quote by David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ec1/david-foster-wallace-161_book_there-is-an-ending-to-infinite-jest-as-f_3084860.jpg)
![“The root of addict in latin is the word addicere, which means religious devotion. It was an attribute of beginning monks. There is an element in the book [Infinite Jest] in which various people are living out something that I think is true, which is that we all worship. We all have a religious…” quote by David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/007/david-foster-wallace-161_home_the-root-of-addict-in-latin-is-the-word_251032.jpg)
