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David Foster Wallace quotes: you do not have to like a person in order to learn from him/her/it. That you do not have to like a person in order to learn from him/her/it. That
David Foster Wallace quotes: My ambitions at this point are modest and mostly surround staying alive. My ambitions at this point are modest and mostly surround staying alive.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Actually just has a born tech-science wienie's congenital impatience with the referential murkiness and inelegance of verbal systems. Actually just has a born tech-science wienie's congenital impatience with the referential murkiness and inelegance of verbal systems.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to. Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Show me somebody who really knows what irony means and I'll show you a bullshit artist. Show me somebody who really knows what irony means and I'll show you a bullshit artist.
David Foster Wallace quotes: You believe you would die twice for another but in truth would die only for your alone self, its sentiment. You believe you would die twice for another but in truth would die only for your alone self, its sentiment.
David Foster Wallace quotes: You get to decide what to worship. You get to decide what to worship.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Feral hamsters are not pets. They mean business. Feral hamsters are not pets. They mean business.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. Sometimes words that seem to express really invoke.
David Foster Wallace quotes: It's well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends to afflict the congenitally nice. It's well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends to afflict the congenitally nice.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Bain's view was always that C.T. Bain's view was always that C.T.
David Foster Wallace quotes: That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable. That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Talk about solid turds all you want. The molecular integrity of shit is small potatoes. Talk about solid turds all you want. The molecular integrity of shit is small potatoes.
David Foster Wallace quotes: The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Had numerous pairs of dress chinos and blue blazers and Topsiders, and a smile that looked as though someone had plugged him in. Had numerous pairs of dress chinos and blue blazers and Topsiders, and a smile that looked as though someone had plugged him in.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Authors are monkeys who mean Authors are monkeys who mean
David Foster Wallace quotes: The encaged and suicidal have a really hard time imagining anyone caring passionately about anything. The encaged and suicidal have a really hard time imagining anyone caring passionately about anything.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Just thoroughgoingly nasty and sick. Just thoroughgoingly nasty and sick.
David Foster Wallace quotes: We think of ourselves now as eaters of the pie instead of makes of the pie ... Corporations make the pie. They make it and we eat it. We think of ourselves now as eaters of the pie instead of makes of the pie ... Corporations make the pie. They make it and we eat it.
David Foster Wallace quotes: It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility. It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility.
David Foster Wallace quotes: ...a harried commuter is mistaken for Christ by a child he knocks over. ...a harried commuter is mistaken for Christ by a child he knocks over.
David Foster Wallace quotes: One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either. One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Untitled. Unfinished. UNRELEASED Untitled. Unfinished. UNRELEASED
David Foster Wallace quotes: The drowned panic of not being able to ask questions or have any input into what somebody's saying is so awful it sort of dwarfs the pain. The drowned panic of not being able to ask questions or have any input into what somebody's saying is so awful it sort of dwarfs the pain.
David Foster Wallace quotes: The drunk and the maimed both are dragged forward out of the arena like a boneless Christ, one man under each arm, feet dragging, eyes on the aether. The drunk and the maimed both are dragged forward out of the arena like a boneless Christ, one man under each arm, feet dragging, eyes on the aether.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Sometimes in the same week. There might even be - though Sometimes in the same week. There might even be - though
David Foster Wallace quotes: His eyes were holes in the world. His eyes were holes in the world.
David Foster Wallace quotes: I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN. I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.
David Foster Wallace quotes: That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.
David Foster Wallace quotes: I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting. I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.
David Foster Wallace quotes: The trees' bony fingers make spell-casting gestures in the wind as they pass. The trees' bony fingers make spell-casting gestures in the wind as they pass.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful. Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.
David Foster Wallace quotes: I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt assadness. I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt as
sadness.
David Foster Wallace quotes: She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it. She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.
David Foster Wallace quotes: I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control. I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Her expression is from Page 18 of the Victoria's Secret catalogue. Her expression is from Page 18 of the Victoria's Secret catalogue.
David Foster Wallace quotes: It never once occurs to him, though, that the reason he's so unhappy is that he's an asshole. It never once occurs to him, though, that the reason he's so unhappy is that he's an asshole.
David Foster Wallace quotes: When he settles in with the tray and cartridge, the TP's viewer's digital display reads 1927h. When he settles in with the tray and cartridge, the TP's viewer's digital display reads 1927h.
David Foster Wallace quotes: There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is. There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.
David Foster Wallace quotes: The great myth is that the bad ones don't last long. The great myth is that the bad ones don't last long.
David Foster Wallace quotes: The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
David Foster Wallace quotes: The boot, which was dull black and square-heeled, the motorcycle boot of persons who did not own motorcycles but wore the boots of those who did. The boot, which was dull black and square-heeled, the motorcycle boot of persons who did not own motorcycles but wore the boots of those who did.
David Foster Wallace quotes: The freedom to be lords of our own tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the centre of all creation. The freedom to be lords of our own tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the centre of all creation.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Wolf-Spiders Ruleth the Land Wolf-Spiders Ruleth the Land
David Foster Wallace quotes: Defining yourself in opposition to something is still being anaclitic on that thing, isn't it? Defining yourself in opposition to something is still being anaclitic on that thing, isn't it?
David Foster Wallace quotes: Material possession is one thing, but ideological passion disgusts us on some deep level. Material possession is one thing, but ideological passion disgusts us on some deep level.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Johnny Gentle, the first U.S. President ever to swing his microphone around by the cord during his Inauguration speech. Johnny Gentle, the first U.S. President ever to swing his microphone around by the cord during his Inauguration speech.
David Foster Wallace quotes: So yo then man what's your story? So yo then man what's your story?
David Foster Wallace quotes: in winter's watered-down light - just in winter's watered-down light - just
David Foster Wallace quotes: The kid has no idea he even knows something's wrong The kid has no idea he even knows something's wrong
David Foster Wallace quotes: I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in bad conditions. I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in bad conditions.
David Foster Wallace quotes: every failure is also a victory. every failure is also a victory.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist. Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.
David Foster Wallace quotes: The sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad. The sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.
David Foster Wallace quotes: I am not what you see and hear. -Hal I am not what you see and hear. -Hal
David Foster Wallace quotes: Sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them. Sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear. Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.
David Foster Wallace quotes: And so but anyway And so but anyway
David Foster Wallace quotes: She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks. She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.
David Foster Wallace quotes: really do do this, really do do this,
David Foster Wallace quotes: What's unendurable is what his own head could make of it all. What his head could report to him, looking over and ahead and reporting. What's unendurable is what his own head could make of it all. What his head could report to him, looking over and ahead and reporting.
David Foster Wallace quotes: You know those mass-market cartridges, for the masses? The ones that are so bad they're somehow perversely good? This was worse than that. You know those mass-market cartridges, for the masses? The ones that are so bad they're somehow perversely good? This was worse than that.
David Foster Wallace quotes: There's been time this whole time. You can't kill time with your heart. Everything takes time. There's been time this whole time. You can't kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.
David Foster Wallace quotes: What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it. What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Life is essentially one long search for an ashtray. Life is essentially one long search for an ashtray.
David Foster Wallace quotes: You have wondered perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys You have wondered perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys
David Foster Wallace quotes: Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being. Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being.
David Foster Wallace quotes: God - unless you're Charlton Heston, or unhinged, or both - speaks and acts entirely through the vehicle of human beings, if there is a God. God - unless you're Charlton Heston, or unhinged, or both - speaks and acts entirely through the vehicle of human beings, if there is a God.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still. Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Word inflation ... Bigger and better. Good greater greatest totally great. Hyperbolic and hyperbolicker. Like grade-inflation. Word inflation ... Bigger and better. Good greater greatest totally great. Hyperbolic and hyperbolicker. Like grade-inflation.
David Foster Wallace quotes: It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak. It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Hamsters being notorious draggers and rearrangers of stuff they can't eat but feel compelled to fuck with anyway, somehow - and Hamsters being notorious draggers and rearrangers of stuff they can't eat but feel compelled to fuck with anyway, somehow - and
David Foster Wallace quotes: It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art. 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 quotes: Headers from the last few great daily papers, Headers from the last few great daily papers,
David Foster Wallace quotes: The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages. The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.
David Foster Wallace quotes: I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back. I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back.
David Foster Wallace quotes: I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art. I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
David Foster Wallace quotes: If I'm hanging out with you, I can't even tell whether I like you or not because I'm too worried about whether you like me. If I'm hanging out with you, I can't even tell whether I like you or not because I'm too worried about whether you like me.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure would seem to have been almost custom-designed for the case of tattoos. Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure would seem to have been almost custom-designed for the case of tattoos.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Expectant. My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it. I compose what I project will be seen as a Expectant. My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it. I compose what I project will be seen as a
David Foster Wallace quotes: Our leaders, our government is us, all of us, so if they're venal and weak it's because we are. Our leaders, our government is us, all of us, so if they're venal and weak it's because we are.
David Foster Wallace quotes: The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection. The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.
David Foster Wallace quotes: desire is the sugar in human food. desire is the sugar in human food.
David Foster Wallace quotes: I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear
David Foster Wallace quotes: I am not what you see and hear. I am not what you see and hear.
David Foster Wallace quotes: There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness. There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.
David Foster Wallace quotes: I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me. I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.
David Foster Wallace quotes: The difference between homicide and suicide is mostly a matter of where you perceive the door top to the cage to be. The difference between homicide and suicide is mostly a matter of where you perceive the door top to the cage to be.
David Foster Wallace quotes: (on Updike) Has the son of a bitch ever had one unpublished thought? (on Updike) Has the son of a bitch ever had one unpublished thought?
David Foster Wallace quotes: There are secrets within secrets, thoughalways. There are secrets within secrets, though
always.
David Foster Wallace quotes: She regarded the things that were important to me as her enemy, not realizing that they were, in fact, the "me" she seemed so jealously to covet. She regarded the things that were important to me as her enemy, not realizing that they were, in fact, the "me" she seemed so jealously to covet.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Yes, I'm paranoid - but am I paranoid enough? Yes, I'm paranoid - but am I paranoid enough?
David Foster Wallace quotes: Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you. Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
David Foster Wallace quotes: The air-conditioning was more like a vague gesture toward the abstract idea of air-conditioning. The air-conditioning was more like a vague gesture toward the abstract idea of air-conditioning.
David Foster Wallace quotes: How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it's just words. How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it's just words.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
David Foster Wallace quotes: The happy pleasure of the person alone, yes? The happy pleasure of the person alone, yes?
David Foster Wallace quotes: I am about art here, not simple reproduction. I am about art here, not simple reproduction.
David Foster Wallace quotes: Nothing from nature is good or bad. Natural things just are ... Nothing from nature is good or bad. Natural things just are ...

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