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so full of himself he could have shit limbs.
— David Foster Wallace
It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames.
— David Foster Wallace
Abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy.
— David Foster Wallace
you do not have to like a person in order to learn from him/her/it. That
— David Foster Wallace
Mediocrity is contextual.
— David Foster Wallace
Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to.
— David Foster Wallace
You believe you would die twice for another but in truth would die only for your alone self, its sentiment.
— David Foster Wallace
Capital T-truth is about life before death.
— David Foster Wallace
I like David Foster Wallace. But if you type David Foster Wallace into OkCupid, it's a shitshow.
— Moira Weigel
In life, the microphone passes your lips but once ... you had better be ready to sing.
— David Foster Wallace
The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.
— David Foster Wallace
Mr. Incandenza, this is the Enfield Raw Sewage Commission, and quite frankly we've had enough shit out of you.
— David Foster Wallace
I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy.
— David Foster Wallace
Sounds kind of ad hoc and jerry-rigged and haphazard.' 'Everybody's a critic. This wasn't an aesthetic endeavor.
— David Foster Wallace
I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers ...
— David Foster Wallace
It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.
— David Foster Wallace
Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?
— David Foster Wallace
That everybody's sneeze sounds different.
— David Foster Wallace
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
...giving me the exact kind of smile of someone who, on Christmas morning, has just unwrapped an expensive present he already owns.
— David Foster Wallace
I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.
— David Foster Wallace
The trees' bony fingers make spell-casting gestures in the wind as they pass.
— David Foster Wallace
Just the thought of getting up made me glad I was lying on the floor.
— David Foster Wallace
Her expression is from Page 18 of the Victoria's Secret catalogue.
— David Foster Wallace
I'm a typical American, half of me is dying to give myself away and the other half is continually rebelling.
— David Foster Wallace
There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.
— David Foster Wallace
the man was so cross-eyed he could stand in the middle of the week and see both Sundays.
— David Foster Wallace
and the tumescence of O.N.A.N.ism.
— David Foster Wallace
When he settles in with the tray and cartridge, the TP's viewer's digital display reads 1927h.
— David Foster Wallace
Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on.
— David Foster Wallace
I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.
— David Foster Wallace
The only real significance she had attached to the memory was that it was funny what stuck with you.
— David Foster Wallace
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
He was around where the tree-line bulged herniatically out toward the end of the West Courts' fencing.
— David Foster Wallace
De Tocqueville's thrust is that it's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.
— David Foster Wallace
To try and forget, rasa the tabula, wipe the memory totally out, numb it with opiates.
— David Foster Wallace
That females are capable of being just as vulgar about sexual and eliminatory functions as males.
— David Foster Wallace
Some answer or trick of the will: the ability not to think about it. What if everyone knew this trick but Claude Sylvanshine?
— David Foster Wallace
It's no coincidence it's the gurus on mountains who're wise. You get to the top: you're already theirs.
— David Foster Wallace
So yo then man what's your story?
— David Foster Wallace
Perversely, it is often more fun to want something than to have it.
— David Foster Wallace
I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
— David Foster Wallace
Because Tavis had been the one to take the lion's share of the heat when it turned out that Blue Jays' spectators in the stands,
— David Foster Wallace
The other half is to dramatize that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.
— David Foster Wallace
Insects all business all the time.
— David Foster Wallace
The inactive viewer's screen is the color of way out over the Atlantic looking straight down on a cold day.
— David Foster Wallace
Tornadoes were, in out part of Central Illinois, the dimensionless point at which parallel lines met and whirled and blew up. They made no sense.
— David Foster Wallace
This American penchant for absolution via irony is foreign to them.
— David Foster Wallace
Don't worry about getting in touch with your feelings, they'll get in touch with you.
— David Foster Wallace
And he can feel his heart going out into the world ...
— David Foster Wallace
No more Network reluctance to make a program too entertaining for fear its commercials would pale in comparison.
— David Foster Wallace
This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.
— David Foster Wallace
David Cronenberg's mainstream Crash comes out of absolutely nowhere to win something called Best Alternative Adult Feature Film.
— David Foster Wallace
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— David Foster Wallace
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
The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.
— David Foster Wallace
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
God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about.
— David Foster Wallace
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
— David Foster Wallace
Most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.
— David Foster Wallace
This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
— David Foster Wallace
Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being.
— David Foster Wallace
Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.
— David Foster Wallace
That something smelled delicious!' I screamed.
— David Foster Wallace
Still, though.""Right. Exactly. — David Foster Wallace
It would take an architect who could hate enough to feel enough to love enough to perpetrate the kind of special cruelty only real lovers can inflict.
— David Foster Wallace
The truth is that there's no difference between a life and a story? But a life pretends to be something more? But it really isn't more? LENORE:
— David Foster Wallace
There's more to life than sitting there interfacing, it might bea newsflash to you. — David Foster Wallace
I find in myself a need to get very away.
— David Foster Wallace
Expectant. My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it. I compose what I project will be seen as a
— David Foster Wallace
Irony tyrannizes us. All US irony is based on an implicit 'I don't really mean what I'm saying.
— David Foster Wallace
If you are an adolescent, here is the trick to being neither quite a nerd nor quite a jock: be no one.It is easier than you think. — David Foster Wallace
I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.
— David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace: There's so much beauty and profundity in all kinds of shitty pop culture all around us.
— David Lipsky
The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.
— David Foster Wallace
Breasts are uniformly zeppelinesque and in various perilous stages of semiconfinement.
— David Foster Wallace
Do not underestimate objects.
— David Foster Wallace
Our leaders, our government is us, all of us, so if they're venal and weak it's because we are.
— David Foster Wallace
This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.
— David Foster Wallace
People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.
— David Foster Wallace
Greater when one's mind has been exercised and thus
— David Foster Wallace
-you can prove that there are exactly as many real numbers between 0 and 1 as between 0 and any other finite number you can think of.
— David Foster Wallace
I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen.
— David Foster Wallace
One of the really American things about Hal, probably, is the way he despises what it is he's really lonely for
— David Foster Wallace
So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?
— David Foster Wallace
People hate people, not freedom.
— David Foster Wallace
And just before 0145h. on 2 April Y.D.A.U., his wife arrived back home
— David Foster Wallace
Two clocks, two ghosts, one square acre of hidden mirror.
— David Foster Wallace
He'd cure himself by excess.
— David Foster Wallace
He was trying to pay close attention to his surroundings as a way to avert thought and anxiety.
— 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 had never been so anxious for the arrival of a woman he did not want to see.
— David Foster Wallace
But from special it's not very far to Alone.
— David Foster Wallace
I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.
— David Foster Wallace
You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.
— David Foster Wallace
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[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.
— David Foster Wallace
Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure would seem to have been almost custom-designed for the case of tattoos.
— David Foster Wallace
desire is the sugar in human food.
— David Foster Wallace
Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.
— David Foster Wallace
Fictionally speaking, desire is the sugar in human food.
— David Foster Wallace