How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
David Foster WallaceMots clés words
...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.
David Foster WallaceMots clés thinking addiction drugs addict
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Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.
David Foster WallaceMots clés focus
LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of its oldest lies. Do not believe the photographs. Fame is not the exit from any cage.
David Foster WallaceMots clés fame tennis photographs
[The entire text of Infinite Jest.]
David Foster WallaceI'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.
David Foster WallaceGately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool.
David Foster WallaceMots clés addiction drugs alcoholics-anonymous sobriety recovery bikers
Your basic-type jailhouse tatt is homemade with sewing needles from the jailhouse canteen and some blue ink from the cartridge of a fountain pen promoted from the breast pocket of an unaltert public defender, is why the jailhouse genre is always the same night-sky blue. The needle is dipped in the ink and jabbed as deep into the tattooee as it can be jabbed without making him recoil and fucking up your aim. Just a plain ultraminimal blue square like Gately's got on his right wrist takes half a day and hundreds of individual jabs. How come the lines are never quite straight and the color's never quite all the way solid is it's impossible to get all the individualized punctures down to the same uniform deepness in the, like, twitching flesh. This is why jailhouse tatts always look like they were done by sadistic children on rainy afternoons.
David Foster WallaceWhy do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.
David Foster WallaceMots clés prostitution addiction librarians recovery prostitutes sex-work
Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on.
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