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David Foster Wallace Quote: “Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get to the side of, to see whether deLint has a true z coordinate or is just a cutout or projection.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “If you’ve never wept and want to, have a child.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover’s mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “The man who knows his limitations, has none.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “That there might not be angels, but there are people who might as well be angels.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important-if you want to operate on your default-setting-then you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren’t pointless and annoying.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “I think it’s easy to stop smoking; it’s just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we’re in port.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “TV’s “real” agenda is to be “liked,” because if you like what you’re seeing, you’ll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it’s its sole raison.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “It takes a big man to laugh at himself, but it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “There’s a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “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 Quote: “That concentrating intently on anything is very hard work.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “Authors are monkeys who mean.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. ‘Love’ is one of those words, performative words. Some words can literally make things real.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “It’s probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “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 Quote: “Naive people are, more or less by definition, unaware that they’re naive.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I’m scared about how sappy this’ll look in print, saying this.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “You are the sort of auditor for whom the rhetoricians designed the exordium.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “That evil people never believe they are evil, but rather that everyone else is evil.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “Irony, entertaining as it is, serves an almost exclusively negative function. It’s critical and destructive, a ground-clearing.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a very aggressive form of capitalism and consumerism against what might be called a kind of moral or civic impulse.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “I’m not a machine. I feel and believe. I have opinions. Some of them are interesting. I could, if you’d let me, talk and talk. Let’s talk about anything. I.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “If two people get married in West Virginia and then pull up stakes and move to Massachusetts and then if they decide they want to get a divorce, what’s the biggest problem getting a divorce?”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody’s ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “Capital T-truth is about life before death.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “Because all these people have, you see, by this time already killed themselves, where it really counts. By the time these people swallow entire medicine cabinets or take naps in the garage or whatever, they’ve already been killing themselves for ever so long. When they ‘commit suicide’, they’re just being orderly.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “It’s got something to do with love. With having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “Many people in America throw the term “fascism” around, particularly for Middle-Eastern terrorists, but in fact what fascism really is is a close alliance between a unitary executive and a state and large corporations and a state.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “And then but so what’s the difference between tennis and suicide, life and death, the game and its own end?”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “The freedom to be lords of our own tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the centre of all creation.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “Learning how to think” really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “Our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “I’m screaming for help and everybody’s acting as if I’m singing Ethel Merman covers...”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “I’d like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.”
David Foster Wallace Quote: “David Cronenberg’s mainstream Crash comes out of absolutely nowhere to win something called Best Alternative Adult Feature Film.”
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