Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““Apeshit has rarely enjoyed so literal a denotation.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Sometimes I feel that it was donkeys and not apes the man was evolved from.” — Imran Salahuddin Khan Copy Share Image
“What appears to be lacking, even in great apes, is a motivation to find means to exchange what is on each other’s minds.” — Thomas Suddendorf Copy Share Image
“I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard” — Alfred Döblin Copy Share Image
“As far back as I can remember, I’ve utterly destroyed within myself the pride of being human. And I saunter to the periphery of… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“My nation, your nation, my religion, your religion, my culture, your culture, will be the end of us apes - outwardly fancy, inwardly filthy,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The reaction on the part of the apes, limited as it was to about one subject in every three or four, has just that… — Susanne K. Langer Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
