Freedom Quotes by David Foster Wallace

19 Freedom quotes by David Foster Wallace

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Wallace’s keen eye for modern paradoxes makes his thoughts on liberty feel both urgent and intimate. This collection captures his signature depth, inviting readers to confront the complexities of personal agency.

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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

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“People hate people, not freedom.”

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“How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?”

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But of course there are all kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked…

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“The really important kind of freedom involves attention ad awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and…

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There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and…

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The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other…

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“What if we chose to regard the 2,973 innocents killed in the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as heroes and martyrs, 'sacrifices on…

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But there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about…

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“K---: 'There I'd have to agree. What modern feminists-slash-postfeminists will say they want is mutuality and respect of their individual autonomy. If…

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But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces…

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“But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of…

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“The 'base frees and condenses, compresses the whole experience to the implosion of one terrible shattering spike in the graph, an afflated…

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“There are no choices without personal freedom…We say that one cannot be human without freedom…Your freedom is the freedom from, no one…

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Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did…

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“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other…

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“There are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about much…

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“Look, the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil or sinful; it is that they are unconscious.…

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“There are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in…

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“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.”

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“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills…

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“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.”

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Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape…

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“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,…

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“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to…

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“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic…

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“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we…

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“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only…

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