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 disdains the care of his once-comely bod."
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"Time wasn't passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed tits of a man who disdains the care of his once-comely bod."
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
"How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?"
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
"I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen."
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 a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I, Boo."
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
"Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?"
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 what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work."
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
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 (...) To games or needles, to some other person."
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' grow real beaks and claws."
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
"It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the ghost. Never questions his own madness might not in fact be unfeigned."
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
"Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic"I give."You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog."
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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