Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““The long cigarette seemed almost to be bleeding smoke, the sunlight on the couch was so bright.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“As it was, he surfed his way towards daylight on a couch infested with cigarette burns and drunken dreams.” — John Zunski Copy Share Image
“...I remember the oily smoke of a cigarette suspended in a shaft of sunlight - with you, everything was beautiful...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
“That night, we each lit a fake cigarette. For past hurts and present pains.” — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
“I went back to the bench and lit a cigarette and inhaled, the smoke entering my body and filling it with poison, with something.” — Taffy Brodesser-Akner Copy Share Image
“It was fun watching the cigarette smoke develop into words until he saw what they said.” — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
“He smelled like smoke and laundered sheets left to dry in the sun.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“She was sitting behind a black glass desk that looked like Napoleon's tomb and she was smoking a cigarette in a black holder that… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“He flicked his cigarette at me. Luckily, I was still wet, and it was mostly extinguished upon contact. I sat on his lap and… — Nicole Castle Copy Share Image
“and on that thin-mooned night, I could see little more than her silhouette except for when she smoked, the burning cherry of the cigarette… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The cigarette hung unlit from his lips. Was he doomed to roam forever in his ghost state, always wanting to light that cigarette? A… — Deanna Chase Copy Share Image
“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.” — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
“She put a cigarette in her mouth and lit it, tasting the familiar taste of nicotine, smoke, and impending lung cancer. It felt good.… — Mike Omer 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