Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““(on Updike) Has the son of a bitch ever had one unpublished thought?”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“When she was not persuading him that he was, like all men without a woman in their lives, utterly helpless, she indulged in an… — Alanna Knight Copy Share Image
“And if you're doing a deal with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“loathsome Upmans. He thought, ridiculously, that she owed him something. She began to babble, regardless of the fact that he couldn’t understand a word… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
“She had always thought of her life as a series of submissions to God. What if she has been making her own decisions all… — Padma Viswanathan Copy Share Image
“When one lies awake in the night one thinks of many things, and I thought now.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“I never worry about “thinking up” an idea for a story. I watch the people around me. Each one is a story.” — Marion Reidel Copy Share Image
“Then again, in some of our meetings, the Upyri bring cocktails, shaking both cocks and tails. Bitches. You can't live with them, they can't… — Yannis Karatsioris 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
