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David Foster Wallace quotes

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“The person in whom its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise.” David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.” David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.” David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“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, The Pale King
“There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.” David Foster Wallace, This Is Water
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.” David Foster Wallace, This Is Water
“everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.” David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.” David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.” David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.” David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.” David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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Infinite Jest (9)
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