How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to... - David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
"How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?"
"How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?"
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
"We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person."
"Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?""I give.""You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog."
"Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else."
"Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency."