“It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function of who and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The German logician Kant was right in this respect, human beings are all pretty much identical in terms of our hardwiring. Although… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“K---: 'There I'd have to agree. What modern feminists-slash-postfeminists will say they want is mutuality and respect of their individual autonomy. If… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Because we’ve been lied to and lied to, and it hurts to be lied to. It’s ultimately just about that complicated: it… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“What he'd do, he'd never go out to the length of the chain. He'd never even get out to where the chain… — 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
