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“What TV is extremely good at—and realize that this is "all it does"—is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.”

David Foster Wallace

“Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.”

David Foster Wallace book The Broom of the System

Source: The Broom of the System

“There is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”

David Foster Wallace

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

“My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest (1996)

“For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room.”

David Foster Wallace book The Pale King

Source: The Pale King

“It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i. e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.”

David Foster Wallace book The Pale King

Source: The Pale King

“And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.”

David Foster Wallace book The Broom of the System

Source: The Broom of the System

“So yo then man what's your story?”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?”

David Foster Wallace

“He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot.”

David Foster Wallace

“[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.”

David Foster Wallace

Source: The Best American Essays 2007

“The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.”

David Foster Wallace book The Pale King

Source: The Pale King

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

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest (1996)

“Abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy. For the great disadvantage of secrecy is that it’s interesting.”

David Foster Wallace book The Pale King

Source: The Pale King