Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““so full of himself he could have shit limbs.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I like imagining that he punished his body for me, torturing it into such spectacular shape, hoping that one day I'd be able to… — Collette West Copy Share Image
“Could I really mean so much to this man? Could this mess of a human being in his arms be his everything?” — Lydia Kelly Copy Share Image
“He realized that he was manacled hand and foot with fetters that were only more intolerable because they consisted of nothing more substantial than… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Everything he did was a physical thing. When he spoke, my bones ached. When he breathed, I felt it in my veins and on… — Tyra Lynn Copy Share Image
“But before he’d stepped out of the cab and walked into our home, it would never have seemed remotely possible that someone so thoroughly… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Is he one of those voracious bottoms who gets everything by throwing their legs in the air?” — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
“They were like amputees, only it was not a limb they were missing, but their very souls.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he looks at his arms and is filled with a self-hatred so fiery that he can barely breathe: much of what his body… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“amidst the horrors of war, it became apparent that there was no way he could possibly survive the carnage. And if by some stroke… — Julia Quinn 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
