Infinite Jest Quotes - Page 2

• You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.

  David Foster Wallace

  Running, Games, Broken

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.

  David Foster Wallace

  Cynical, Hips, Sentimental

  "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1996.

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• It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

  David Foster Wallace

  Anxiety, Marketing, Advertising

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.284, Hachette UK

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• It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their entire lives to it. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe.

  David Foster Wallace

  Caring, Years, People

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• I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Trying, Unfair

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Feelings, Arms, Temples

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• You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.

  Harold Bloom

  Writing, Thinking, Want

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