Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““the air over the table like the sparkling space just above a fresh-poured seltzer.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The air is so clean out here, so fresh. Reminds me of when I was a little girl in Georgia." Then she took More… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I looked down into my glass. It held club soda, but the way I was gazing into it you’d have thought it was filled… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“It was as if the air was fragranced with potential and the coffee flavoured with facts.” — Elise K. Ackers Copy Share Image
“The air feels sugary and thick, between the coffee steam and the music, and I forget to notice time passing, hours passing.” — Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
“The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“understood that in the business environment it was considered a gesture of civilization to offer the guest something to drink without booze in it,… — Donald E. Westlake 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
