Best David Foster Wallace Quotes
- Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of… Associative
- There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and… Adult
- But of course there are all kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the… Achieve
- I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control. Ability
- The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my head… All
- Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated… Bored
- At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over.… Axiom
- I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on… Bed
- The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me a compelling argument… Argument
- 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 adult existence, banal… Abstract
- But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention...it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type… All
- If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important-if you want to operate on your default-setting-then you,… Annoying
- This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural,… Altering
- Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get… Abstract
- Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic? Agnostic
- This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside. Alone
- The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists,… Artist
- I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art. Art
- I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the… Art
- It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art. Admire
- Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. Becomes
- It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Attention
- This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is… Appetite
- You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death,… Alone
- Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in… Becomes
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