David Foster Wallace Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Actually just has a born tech-science wienie's congenital impatience with the referential murkiness and inelegance of verbal systems.
You believe you would die twice for another but in truth would die only for your alone self, its sentiment.
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
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.
Had numerous pairs of dress chinos and blue blazers and Topsiders, and a smile that looked as though someone had plugged him in.
The encaged and suicidal have a really hard time imagining anyone caring passionately about anything.
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.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.
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 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.
There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.
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.
Johnny Gentle, the first U.S. President ever to swing his microphone around by the cord during his Inauguration speech.
I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in bad conditions.
Sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.
Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Word inflation ... Bigger and better. Good greater greatest totally great. Hyperbolic and hyperbolicker. Like grade-inflation.
Hamsters being notorious draggers and rearrangers of stuff they can't eat but feel compelled to fuck with anyway, somehow - and
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
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.
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.
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.
Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure would seem to have been almost custom-designed for the case of tattoos.
The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.
There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.
The difference between homicide and suicide is mostly a matter of where you perceive the door top to the cage to be.
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.