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Quotes from Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace

1962–2008 United States

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10 quotes

That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

Infinite Jest (1996)

After a few weeks of this she'd spend a whole day weeping, beating at herself as if on fire.

Infinite Jest (1996)

They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.

Infinite Jest (1996)

My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.

Infinite Jest (1996)

'You know what your problem is, Hallie?' 'I have just one problem?'

Infinite Jest (1996)

That everyone is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. That this isn't necessarily perverse.

Infinite Jest (1996)

Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.

Infinite Jest (1996)

Betraying her class and origin with the heartbreaking openness Joelle's always viewed as either terribly stupid or terribly brave

Infinite Jest (1996)

There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free

Infinite Jest (1996)

Then Thursday Coyle had his left wrist tied to his right ankle and was still beating this new kid Stockhausen until Schtitt sent Tex Watson down to tell him to knock it off.

Infinite Jest (1996)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Foster Wallace (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.