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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: "I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step..."
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. David Foster Wallace
I guess that’s supposed to be deconstruction’s original program, right? People have been under some sort of metaphysical anesthesia, so you dismantle the metaphysics’ axioms and prejudices, show it in cross section and reveal the advantages of its abandonment. It’s literally aggravating: you awaken them to the fact that they’ve been unconsciously imbibing some narcotic pharmakon since they were old enough to say “Momma.” -Interview with Larry McCaffery (1993) David Foster Wallace
Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it. David Foster Wallace
He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied. David Foster Wallace
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens..."
Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. David Foster Wallace
There is something deeply surreal about standing behind a female performer in hotpink peau de soie, a woman whose clitoris and perineum you have priorly seen, and watching her try to get a microwaved egg roll onto her plate with a cocktail fork. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite..."
They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier. David Foster Wallace
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. David Foster Wallace
I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "For whom is the Funhouse a house?"
For whom is the Funhouse a house? David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "Logical validity is not a guarantee of truth."
Logical validity is not a guarantee of truth. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear..."
Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear. David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace quote: "Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as..."
...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome. David Foster Wallace
Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV. David Foster Wallace

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