I wasn't all that attracted to writing originally. I read a great deal. My parents read a great deal. I do know… — 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
“What if the preacher or father’s saying ‘Someone here’s lost and hopeless’ was tantamount to those Sun-Times horoscopes that are specially designed… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“You see parents as kind or unkind or happy or miserable or drunk or sober or great or near-great or failed the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“For what it's worth, I accept the basic idea that parents instinctively do 'love' their offspring no matter what -- the evolutionary… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“For me, the last few years of the postmodern era have seemed a bit like the way you feel when you're in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It may be that psychologists are off-base in their preoccupation with children’s need to feel that their father or some other parent… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The cleric appears tonight in monochrome and collar. Bless me Do you take this woman Sarah To be my How long For… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“...ragweed,wild oat,vetch,butcher grass,invaginate volunteer beans,all heads gently nodding in a morning breeze like a mother's soft hand on your cheek...” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“[…] his own father told him that talent is sort of a dark gift, that talent is its own expectation: it is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The father of Ruth van Cleve's child, she reports, is under the protection and care of the Norfolk County Correctional Authority, awaiting… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Past the flannel plains and blacktop graphs and skylines of canted rust, and past the tobacco-brown river overhung with weeping trees and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Have a father who lived up to his own promise and then found thing after thing to meet and surpass the expectations… — 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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