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David Foster Wallace Quotes

David Foster Wallace quotes

American Writer February 21, 1962 – December 12, 2008

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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. David Foster Wallace
The sun is a hammer. I can feel one side of my face start to cook. The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims. David Foster Wallace
Interesting. Stonecipheco Baby Foods. Not a bad line of products, really. A bit soft and runny for my taste, of course. . . ."Well, it's infant food, really, Norman. David Foster Wallace
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were. David Foster Wallace
The Joke... Audience as reflexive cast; 35 mm. X2 cameras; variable length; black and white, silent. Parody of Hollis Frampton’s ‘audience-specific events,’ two Ikegami EC-35 video cameras in theater record the film’s audience and project the resultant raster onto screen - the theater audience watching itself watch itself get the obvious ‘joke’ and become increasingly self-conscious and uncomfortable and hostile supposedly comprises the film’s involuted ‘antinarrative’ flow. Incandenza’s... David Foster Wallace
Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread. Everything about it suggests infirm senescence and death: it's a game played on the skin of a void, and the rasp of the sliding puck is the sound of that skin getting abraded away bit by bit. David Foster Wallace
I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. David Foster Wallace
The point of reptition is that there is no point. Wait until it soaks into the hardware and then see the way this frees up your head. A whole shitload of head-space you don't need for the mechanics anymore, after they've sunk in. Now the mechanics are wred in. Hardwired in. This frees the head in the remarkablest ways. Just wait. You start thinking a whole different way now, playing. The court might as well be inside you. The ball stops being a ball. The ball starts being something that you... David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "This is so American, man: either make something your God and..."
This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "I am about art here, not simple reproduction."
I am about art here, not simple reproduction. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the..."
Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like..."
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art. David Foster Wallace
That God might regard the issue of whether you believe there's a God or not as fair low on his/her/its list of things s/he/it's interested in re you. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside."
This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. David Foster Wallace
This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death. David Foster Wallace

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