Lines Quotes by David Foster Wallace

10 Lines quotes by David Foster Wallace

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David Foster Wallace could pack a lot into a single sentence, and these ten examples showcase that density. They serve as a quick entry point for readers who want to sense his intellectual playfulness and depth.

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This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.

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Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as…

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The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile…

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To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that…

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You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…

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At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility…

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The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams…

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I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels.…

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My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still…

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…there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging…

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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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