Best David Foster Wallace Lines
- Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy. Feral
- I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control. Always Appear
- Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And… All
- Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not? Best
- It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass… Achieve
- And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an… All
- There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness. Bedouins
- Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most… Alive
- Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to… Capital
- Capital T-truth is about life before death. Capital
- What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing… Artist
- Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs? Doe
- I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. Book
- ...morning is the soul's night. Inspirational
- -the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at… Certainty
- Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. Either Live
- The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir. Been
- It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. Ads
- Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else. Acceptance
- Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still. Bees
- What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more… Administration
- I am not what you see and hear. -Hal Funny
- I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel:… Absence
- What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is… Cynical
- And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he… Archer
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