There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. — 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. — David Foster Wallace 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
“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 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
Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic? — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The really important kind of freedom involves being able truly to care about other people. — David Foster 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
“The hubris of man cannot hope to fathom the infinite jest that is woman.” — Trevor E. Donaldson 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
“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
“ 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
“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
“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
....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
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