“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
“Look, the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil or sinful; it is that they are unconscious.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“So this purports to be a disease, alcoholism? A disease like a cold? Or like cancer? I have to tell you, I… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“...when he kneels at other times and prays or meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual understanding of God as he… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“[...] at this point the God-understanding stuff kind of makes him want to puke, from fear. Something you can't see or hear… — 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
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/007/david-foster-wallace-161_home_the-root-of-addict-in-latin-is-the-word_251032.jpg)
![“[...] at this point the God-understanding stuff kind of makes him want to puke, from fear. Something you can't see or hear or touch or smell: OK. All right. But something you can't even feel? Because that's what he feels when he tries to understand something to really sincerely pray to…” quote by David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0eb/david-foster-wallace-161_belief_at-this-point-the-god-understanding-stuf_3091170.jpg)
