Best David Foster Wallace Wisdom
- Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have… Become Less
- Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around. Decent
- Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like… Actually Know
- Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. Allure
- I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts… Accounts
- He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to… Arm
- That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that… Accumulate
- But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this decision be my… Decide
- But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote… Adults
- every failure is also a victory. Every Failure
- Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving? Alone
- And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you were right… Absorb
- If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they… Ability
- she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other… Arm
- So yo then man what's your story? Inspirational
- I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit’sOKit’sOKit’sOK, over and over. From very far away. Away Goes
- We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a… All
- No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity… Appreciate
- We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody… All
- Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what… Even Hope
- [T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help. All
- Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes… All
- My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still there. . .… Abstract
- There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing… Alive
- I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and… Enjoy
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