Quotes by David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?""I give.""You get someone who — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic. — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts t — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (. — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting? — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
So tonight to shush you how about if I say I have administrative bones to pick with God, Boo. I'll say God seems to have — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen. — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose? — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Time wasn't passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed tits of a man who dis — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
When he smoked marijuana he tended to masterbate a great deal. — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
When people call it [depression] I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the object — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest