Best David Foster Wallace Quotations
- The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful… Cantor
- It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. Believe
- I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes. Assholes
- Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever… Actual
- I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing. Biting
- It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive. Delusive
- The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be. Beings
- The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush. All
- TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its… Agenda
- Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. Beauty
- The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight… Book
- You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on… Accountants
- I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion. Any
- The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. Apart
- This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it. American
- The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what… Art
- The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. Anesthetic
- For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still… Addressing
- Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. Consequence
- Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. Black
- I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility… Coupled
- One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism. Artist
- To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print,… Die
- What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they… All
- Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important… Alley
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