Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““I was enjoying being one horizontal object in a room filled with horizontality.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every step? Sometimes it… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“I knew he was all about atmosphere: the lighting, the artwork on the walls, the spacing of tables, music. He loved the full experience.” — Susan Bernhardt Copy Share Image
“I had learned that you could imagine anything you wanted, that the space inside your head belonged only to you. Furnished and decorated and… — Beatriz Williams Copy Share Image
“Long ago, I had learned that you could imagine anything you wanted, that the space inside your head belonged to you. Furnished and decorated… — Beatriz Williams Copy Share Image
“I'm asexual, though occasionally I'm attracted to inanimate objects. Mainly tube-shaped objects.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The room was full of magical objects, animals, photographs, paintings, strange looking plants and many flying books. I only found this room a few… — Magda M. Olchawska Copy Share Image
“She was quite surprised to notice that the "toys" she had placed in the room were among those things virtually untouched.” — Paula Polk Lillard Copy Share Image
“If I had to say how I felt, I would say like a box that had been turned upside down. And the box was… — Grace McCleen Copy Share Image
“In the widely open cup of the armchair was I-330. I, on the floor, embracing her limbs, my head on her lap. We were… — Yevgeny Zamyatin 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
