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David Foster Wallace Quotes

David Foster Wallace quotes

American Writer February 21, 1962 – December 12, 2008

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He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him."
When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And..."
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic. David Foster Wallace
Part of the reason I actually preferred Twin Peaks's second season to its first was the fascinating spectacle of watching a narrative structure disintegrate and a narrative artist freeze up and try to shuck and jive when the plot reached a point where his own weaknesses as an artist were going to be exposed (just imagine the fear: this disintegration was happening on national TV). David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it."
Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it."
Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "You will become way less concerned with what other people..."
You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. David Foster Wallace
(Where do they get these giant flags? What happens to them when there's no campaign? Where do they go? Where do you even store flags that size? Or is there maybe just one, which Mc. Cain2000's advance team has to take down afterward and hurtle with to the next THM to get it put up before Mc. Cain and the cameras arrive? Do Gore and the Shrub and all the other candidates each have their own giant flag?) David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "You have wondered perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats?..."
You have wondered perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today’s cowboys David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it..."
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. David Foster Wallace
To be envied, admired, is not a feeling. Nor is fame it feeling. There are feelings associated with fame, but few of them are any more enjoyable than the feelings associated with envy of fame. David Foster Wallace
American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter..."
The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not..."
I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was that I worried a lot David Foster Wallace
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i. e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos. David Foster Wallace

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