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“It is named the "Web" for good reason.”

David Foster Wallace

“Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.”

David Foster Wallace

Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“Capital T-truth is about life before death.”

David Foster Wallace

Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression.”

David Foster Wallace

“I wish you way more than luck.”

David Foster Wallace

Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.”

David Foster Wallace

Variant: Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

“Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith…. Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“When a solipsist dies… everything goes with him.”

David Foster Wallace

Source: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

“Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto.”

David Foster Wallace

Source: Girl With Curious Hair

“Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke.
This can be tricky.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“I am concentrating docilely on the question why U. S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.”

David Foster Wallace

“It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me?”

David Foster Wallace

“To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.”

David Foster Wallace book The Pale King

Source: The Pale King

“Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets,. Hear it? It's a love song.

For whom?

You are loved.”

David Foster Wallace book Girl with Curious Hair

Source: Girl with Curious Hair