Best David Foster Wallace Proverbs
- God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about. Back Management
- The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not. Attention
- Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder,… Abstraction
- True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or… Care
- To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot… Accomplish
- The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly… Ability
- ...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day,… Affirming
- It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility. Evaded
- He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and… Acted
- American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do… American
- sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them. Bottle
- life's endless war against the self you cannot live without. Cannot Live
- My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired. Bones
- He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and… Beats
- That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring… Activities
- You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. Become Way
- Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass.… Advanced
- Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Almost Nothing
- She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof. Bottles
- The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct. Best
- The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. Assumption
- Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. Belief
- Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough… Adult
- To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this… Childhood
- The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the… Actual
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