Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““Bain’s view was always that C.T.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“CLOV [sadly] No one that ever lived ever thought so crooked as we.” — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“He [Lyndon Baines Johnson]turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a… — Herbert Mitgang Copy Share Image
“That he was an arse seemed to be the general consensus of the day.” — Kathryn Smith Copy Share Image
“Gunner had many traits. He could be relaxing to be around. He could be bullheaded. He could be demanding. But most of all, he… — Jodi Linton Copy Share Image
“It wasn't till they were on the bridge that Delly asked RB, "So, Ferris Boyd's your favorite?" She didn't mind, mostly. RB answered so… — Katherine Hannigan Copy Share Image
“till thinking had worn out my enterprise, so stout at starting and so early lost.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Afford me a very enjoyable view of his arse, which was a particularly tight and well-rounded specimen. He might have had a rod jammed… — Helen Harper Copy Share Image
“Dagger was annoying and beginning to inch across that imaginary line of pissing Ryan off.” — Ann Lister 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
