“...junior athletics is but one facet of the real gem: life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“...in real life I always seem to have a hard time winding up a conversation or asking somebody to leave, and sometimes… — 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
“But I gotta tell you, I just think to look across this room and automatically assume that somebody else is less aware… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He just sits there. I want to be like that. Able to just sit all quiet and pull life toward me, one… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to… — 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… — 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
If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“...TV and popular film and most kinds of 'low' art-- which just means art whose primary aim is to make money-- is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish” — 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
“I can remember watching large, tentative, individual flakes of snow falling and blowing around aimlessly in the wind generated by the train… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...)… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“A bird named Vlad the Impaler, who spent the bulk of his life hissing and looking at himself in a little mirror… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“(..)-Dr. G. would later say that the whole "my whole life flashed before me" phenomenon at the end is more like being… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“When I was drunk I wanted to get sober and when I was sober I wanted to get drunk,' John L. says;… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every day.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The 46-year-old recipient of the Jarvik IX Exterior Artificial Heart was actively window shopping in Cambridge, Massachusetts’ fashionable Harvard Square when a… — 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
