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David Foster Wallace Quotes

David Foster Wallace quotes about kindness

American Writer February 21, 1962 – December 12, 2008

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SAMPLE SOLUTION: After a kind of long wait for wood, a B-girl fluffed the rookie woodman into a state where he could take part in a DP SS whose frequent beams required maximum wood, and after a shaky start the SS ended up a spectacular double-facial in which the starlet really displayed her professionalism by managing to stay enthusiastic even though some of the skeet went in her right eye. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not..."
God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about. 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
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. David Foster Wallace
We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us? David Foster Wallace
....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an "end" can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed for you. David Foster Wallace
she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm. David Foster Wallace
What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and nave and goo-prone and generally pathetic. David Foster Wallace
Drug addicts driven to crime to finance their drug addiction are not often inclined toward violent crime. Violence requires all different kinds of energy, and most drug addicts like to expend their energy not on their professional crime but on what their professional crime lets them afford. Drug addicts are often burglars, therefore. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "Ortho Stice played with a kind of rigid, liquid grace, like a..."
Ortho Stice played with a kind of rigid, liquid grace, like a panther in a back-brace. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "[T]he worst kind of nihilist—the kind who isn't even aware..."
[T]he worst kind of nihilist—the kind who isn't even aware he's a nihilist. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably..."
I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity David Foster Wallace

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