“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.” — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Tag: David Foster Wallace
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“It is extremely difficult to stay alert and attentive, instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monologue inside your own head.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
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“Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
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“It’s a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default setting which is to be deeply and literally self-centered and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self. People who can adjust their natural default setting this way are often described as being “well-adjusted”, which I suggest to you is not an accidental term.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
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“A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
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“The fact is that in the day to day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have a life or death importance.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
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“The most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
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“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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“I used to think in long compound sentences with subordinate clauses and even the odd polysyllable. Now I find I needn’t.” — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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“The people to be most frightened of are the people who are the most frightened.” — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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