David Foster Wallace Quotes


There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free.


Citations

Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

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David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
  • Born: February 21, 1962
  • Died: September 12, 2008
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, short stories and essays, and a university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine cited as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. His posthumous novel, The Pale King (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012.