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“sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“… That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“Every love story is a ghost story.”

David Foster Wallace book The Pale King

Source: The Pale King (2011)

“Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui—these are the true hero’s enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.”

David Foster Wallace book The Pale King

Source: The Pale King (2011)

“Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“Mediocrity is contextual.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.”

David Foster Wallace

“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”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest (1996)

“Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.”

David Foster Wallace

Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

“Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“… most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.”

David Foster Wallace

Source: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

“I don't think writers are anythan other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their.”

David Foster Wallace

“… morning is the soul's night.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest