David Foster Wallace quotes - page 6

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. (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. View quote
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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. View quote
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One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism. View quote
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Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move. View quote
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He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot. View quote
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When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him. View quote
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I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art. View quote
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I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today. View quote
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Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. View quote
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The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir. (David Foster Wallace)
Fiction's about what it is to be a human being. View quote
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Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. View quote
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This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody. View quote
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What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings. View quote
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To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish. View quote
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I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I... View quote
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It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know. View quote
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... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak. View quote
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What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic. View quote
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... That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable. (David Foster Wallace)
Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui-these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real. View quote
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The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell. View quote
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... most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking. View quote
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... the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about. View quote
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David Foster Wallace

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Photo: Steve Rhodes, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Writer
Born: February 21, 1962
Died: September 12, 2008
Quotes count: 227
Wikipedia: David Foster Wallace

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