Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““The other half is to dramatize that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be. ”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“There is far, far more to being human than any of us can become on our own.” — Ronald R. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“We have to be who we are, however we may seek eventually to transform ourselves.” — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“We've got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other's only hope.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“When humankind realized they are only humans with a breath of being, they will live in harmony with their fellow-beings.” — Lailah Gifty Akita 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
