Interesting Quotes by David Foster Wallace

10 Interesting quotes by David Foster Wallace

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Wallace’s knack for turning ordinary moments into deep observation shines in this short set. Each line offers a quick dive into his layered, reflective style.

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Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

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“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?”

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The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

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I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you…

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If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are…

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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.…

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I wasn't all that attracted to writing originally. I read a great deal. My parents read a great deal. I do know…

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I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in…

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(I'm not putting any of this well. I am not and never have been an intellectual. I am not articulate, and the…

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It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that…

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“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.”

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“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills…

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“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.”

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Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape…

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“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,…

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“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to…

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“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…

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“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we…

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“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…

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