“Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and… — 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
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
In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there… — 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
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an… — 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
