It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The lives of most people are small tight pallid and sad, more to be mourned than their deaths. We starve at the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
And meteorologists have nothing to tell people in Philo, who know perfectly well that the real story is that to the west,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I mean the people who seriously, seriously play devote their lives to it sort of the way monks do. I mean you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“the patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfish vehicles driven by the ugliest, most… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
To be, in a word, unborable… It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“It is within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
