It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
'This thing I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?' — this sort… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It feels intensely twisted to see reigning industry queen Jenna Jameson chilling out at the Vivid booth in Jordaches and a latex… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In this country we're unprecedentedly safe, comfortable, and well fed, with more and better venues for stimulation. And yet if you were… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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
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
I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay.… — 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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