Best David Foster Wallace Thoughts
- Words and a book and a belief that the world is words... Belief
- The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to… Able
- The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with… Adult
- Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's… Americans
- When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone,… Acted
- ...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome. Genuine
- To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people. Abstraction
- ...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth. Guarantee
- Mediocrity is contextual. Contextual
- ....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste. Entirely
- I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have smelled… Addressed
- Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as… Anchor
- Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move. Dating
- It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where… All
- Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear. Cut
- Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to. Dostoevski
- ....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a… Beyond
- There are very few innocent sentences in writing. Few
- I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to… Continental
- The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die. Almost Made
- Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic. Became
- ...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and… Been
- There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact -… Conservatives
- I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today. Adult
- In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the… Diehard
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