Infinite jest Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““[The entire text of Infinite Jest.]”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Infinite jest
“Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it.” — Gabrielle Zevin 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 have no… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion, even by the utterly lost, to whom life… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. — William Shakespeare 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
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 have no… — 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 is an… — 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 back a… — 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 from my… — 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 a graspable… — 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 intense. They… — 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 it.” — 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 ridiculous to… — 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 chains of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
