Infinite Jest Quotes

#1. Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life,

Gabrielle Zevin

#2. Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. "Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J.

Gabrielle Zevin

#3. [The entire text of Infinite Jest.]

David Foster Wallace

#4. He's got one thick book. He's in the middle of Infinite Jest. You ever heard of it?

Gabrielle Zevin

#5. Infinite Jest' is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it.

Harold Bloom

#6. He had finished and collected the three years of drafts [of Infinite Jest], and finally sat down and typed the whole thing. Wallace didn't really type; he input the giant thing twice, with one finger. But a really fast finger.

David Lipsky

#7. The feeling that we call "I" is itself the product of thought. Having an ego is what it feels like to be thinking without knowing that you are thinking.

Sam Harris

#8. I do things like get in a taxi and say, The library, and step on it.

David Foster Wallace

#9. But he wishes the people really knew who they were mourning: the Isabel he had met on the jetty, so full of life and daring and mischief. His Izzy. His other half of the sky.

M.L. Stedman

#10. Himself had apparently thought the stilted, wooden quality of nonprofessionals helped to strip away the pernicious illusion of realism and to remind the audience that they were in reality watching actors acting and not people behaving.

David Foster Wallace

#11. How did you know that we could get him to do whatever we want if we pretend he's in charge?" Sabrina asked Daphne.
"It's what I do with you" the little girl replied. "You two are exactly the same

Michael Buckley

#12. 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

#13. This is a matter of Congress authorizes spending. They order me to spend.

Barack Obama

#14. Try to let what is unfair teach you.

David Foster

#15. People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything.

Bode Miller

#16. Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

David Foster Wallace

#17. Umasi kept walking, out of sight and into the glittering night. Meahwhile, Zen lay alone, defeated on the cold ground, knowing that he had truly been left behind. Then the memories returned, and for the first time in his life, he cried.

Isamu Fukui

#18. I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.

Will Cuppy

#19. I had to face: I had chosen. My choice, this was love. I had chosen I think the way out of the chains of the cage. I needed this woman. Without her to choose over myself, there was only pain and not choosing, rolling drunkenly and making fantasies of death.

David Foster Wallace