The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.David Foster Wallace
Consider the Lobster...David Foster Wallace
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.David Foster Wallace
Probably the most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on right in front of me.David Foster Wallace
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.David Foster Wallace
The more people think you’re really great, the bigger the fear of being a fraud is.David Foster Wallace
What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.David Foster Wallace
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
Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life...David Foster Wallace
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experienceDavid Foster Wallace