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David Foster Wallace Quotes

David Foster Wallace quotes

American Writer February 21, 1962 – December 12, 2008

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David Foster Wallace quote: "A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the..."
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. David Foster Wallace
He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you."
Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "In a nation whose great informing myth is that it has no great..."
In a nation whose great informing myth is that it has no great informing myth, familiarity equaled timelessness David Foster Wallace
Like many Americans of his generation in this awkwardest of post-Imperial decades, an age suspended between exhaustion and replenishment, between input too ordinary to process and input too intense to bear, Sternberg is deeply ambivalent about being embodied; an informing fear that, were he really just an organism, he'd be nothing more than an ism of his organs. David Foster Wallace
An unpopular apres-garde filmmaker (Watt) either suffers a temporal lobe seizure and becomes mute or else is the victim of everyone else’s delusion that his (Watt’s) temporal lobe seizure has left him mute. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety..."
It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure" would seem to have been..."
Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure" would seem to have been almost custom-designed for the case of tattoos. David Foster Wallace
That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "Talk about solid turds all you want. The molecular integrity..."
Talk about solid turds all you want. The molecular integrity of shit is small potatoes. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only..."
I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today. David Foster Wallace
That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine. David Foster Wallace
[...] almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "Devils are actually angels."
Devils are actually angels. David Foster Wallace
I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves. David Foster Wallace

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