God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
But there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
…there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
But of course there are all kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
A lot of writers tired of doing kind of hip, slick, funny, dark, exploding hypocrisy, underlining once again the point that life… — 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
Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If you're writing fiction, you're dealing with characters who, themselves, will have heartfelt sentiments but who, themselves, live in this culture right… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of neurological makeup that goes along with being a writer, and having been in the room with a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think the only thing for me, the tricky thing with the footnotes, is that they are an irritant, and they require… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a… — 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
Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of… — 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
![“…there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an "end" can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed…” quote by David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ec1/david-foster-wallace-161_book_there-is-an-ending-to-infinite-jest-as-f_3084860.jpg)
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