Infinite jest Quotes by David Foster Wallace

14 Infinite jest quotes by David Foster Wallace

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Wallace’s sharp humor and keen insight into endless amusement are captured in these fourteen concise quotes.

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I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

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“[The entire text of Infinite Jest.]”

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There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.

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Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

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Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

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“Infinite Jest specifically: an endlessly, compulsively entertaining book that stingily withholds from readers the core pleasures of mainstream novelistic entertainment, among them…

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“I had to face: I had chosen. My choice, this was love. I had chosen I think the way out of the…

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He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a…

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…there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging…

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“The root of addict in latin is the word addicere, which means religious devotion. It was an attribute of beginning monks. There…

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“…the Crocodiles say they can't even begin to say how many new guys they've seen Come In and then get sucked back…

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“(She) says that she's finding it especially hard to take when these earnest ravaged folks at the lectern say they're 'Here But…

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“Some people, from what I've seen, boo, when they lie, they become very still and centered and their gaze very concentrated and…

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“And then also, again, still, what are those boundaries, if they’re not baselines, that contain and direct its infinite expansion inward, that…

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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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