There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. — David Foster Wallace 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
“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
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
“....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
“(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
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
....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
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
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“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… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“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… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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