“How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“That you do not have to like a person in order to learn from him/her/it.” — 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
“The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I Philo, educating yourself was something you had to do in spite if school, not because of it -- which is basically… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“And I submit that this is what the real, no-shit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: How… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe even 50, without wanting to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Probably the most dangerous thing about an academic education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency 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 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
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