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David Foster Wallace Quotes

David Foster Wallace quotes

American Writer February 21, 1962 – December 12, 2008

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There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "It’s well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends to..."
It’s well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends to afflict the congenitally nice. David Foster Wallace
True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "Cleverness as opposed to wisdom. Wanting and having instead of..."
Cleverness as opposed to wisdom. Wanting and having instead of thinking and making. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears..."
My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "The severing of an established connection is exponentially..."
The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "... that loneliness is not a function of solitude..."
... that loneliness is not a function of solitude... David Foster Wallace
...as he finally sheds his body's suit, ------ finds his gut and throat again and newly whole, clean and unimpeded, free, catapulted home over fans and the Convexity's glass palisades at desperate speeds, soaring north, sounding a bell-clear and nearly maternal alarmed call-to-arms in all the world's well-known tongues. David Foster Wallace
Workshop Hermeticism, fiction for which the highest praise involves the words 'competent,' 'finished,' 'problem-free,' fiction over which Writing-Program pre- and proscriptions loom with the enclosing force of horizons: no character without Freudian trauma in accessible past, without near-diagnostic physical description; no image undissolved into regulation Updikean metaphor; no overture without a dramatized scene to 'show' what's 'told'; no denouement prior to an epiphany whose approach can... David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "Our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our..."
Our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home. David Foster Wallace
To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing. David Foster Wallace
It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me? David Foster Wallace
All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression. David Foster Wallace
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. David Foster Wallace
Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for de. Lint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get to the side of, to see whether de. Lint has a true z coordinate or is just a cutout or projection. David Foster Wallace

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