David Foster Wallace Quotes
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

-David Foster Wallace
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I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

-David Foster Wallace
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The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisibl . . . Read more

-David Foster Wallace
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

-David Foster Wallace
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The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, 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
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You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

-David Foster Wallace
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Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or kno . . . Read more

-David Foster Wallace
Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?""I give.""You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

-David Foster Wallace
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