There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I have this -- here’s this thing where it’s going to sound sappy to you. I have this unbelievably like five-year-old’s belief… — david foster wallace Copy Share Image
“It’s of some interest that the lively arts of the millennial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as hip and cool. It’s… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I think serious art is supposed to make us confront things that are difficult in ourselves and in the world.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“...TV and popular film and most kinds of 'low' art-- which just means art whose primary aim is to make money-- is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It’s of some interest that the lively arts of the millenial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as hip and cool. It’s… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's the fact the most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older people and then consumed by… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The really significant education in thinking that we're supposed to get at a [liberal arts college] isn't really about the capacity to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Part of the reason I actually preferred Twin Peaks's second season to its first was the fascinating spectacle of watching a narrative… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“You teach the reader that he’s way smarter than he thought he was. I think one of the insidious lessons about TV… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I’ve gotten convinced that there’s something kind of timelessly vital and sacred about good writing. This thing doesn’t have that much to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The Moms revealed that if you're not crazy then speaking to someone who isn't there is termed apostrophe and is valid art.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies--but this is very different.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It may be that mathematics is not generally recognized as one of the arts precisely because so much pyramidal training and practice… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's of some interest that the lively arts of the millennial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as hip and cool. It's… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
