“We're a family that takes its home entertainment very seriously.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving? — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“"-that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle: That our… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“[T]he horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The root of addict in latin is the word addicere, which means religious devotion. It was an attribute of beginning monks. There… — 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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