Best David Foster Wallace Words
- There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these… Choices
- Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness.… All
- The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. Finished
- I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out… All
- I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me. Figure
- You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking. Caused
- Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is… Appreciate
- In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and… Alive
- Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get… Almost Obsessive
- The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to… Able
- To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable… Become Economically
- Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden. All
- All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the… Aesthetic
- Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier"). Bit
- So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time? Hard
- The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so… Acknowledge
- An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something… Absolute
- Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to live too intensely… Academic
- Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself. Attention
- Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you. Inspirational
- Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all… Agnostic
- I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear All
- I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity Augur
- There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen… Ah
- What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at… All
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