Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image “Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to.” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
HE WHO WANTS TO BECOME A COMMANDER OF MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE SHOULD OBEY A COMMAND — SolomonErnefoy Copy Share Image
NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative. — Joseph Furphy Copy Share Image
Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever! — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what has been… — Henry David Thoreau 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
