Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I never consider myself as a tourist, I'm a traveler. I'm buying experience, not stuffs," - Paras” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He was a privileged tourist in a primitive country: flatteringly curious, unknowingly insulting, quite certainly unable to survive if left to his own devices.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“To become a tourist assumes a certain vulnerability, to wear the wrong shoes and not know the right times for meals. To drive too… — Edmond Manning Copy Share Image
“I have no longing for great wealth. For great adventure, yes, to travel widely and love deeply these things I value more than profits.… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
“And tourism is an ugly business, it’s not fit work for human beings. It’s hosting parasites.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“If I were asked to enumerate the pleasures of travel, this would be one of the greatest among them--that so often and so unexpectedly you meet the best in human nature, and seeing it so by surprise and often with a most improbable background, you come, with a sense of pleasant thankfulness, to realize how widely scattered in the world… — Anonymous Copy Share
“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
