Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““This American penchant for absolution via irony is foreign to them.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Irony tyrannizes us. All US irony is based on an implicit 'I don't really mean what I'm saying.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“Irony that does not deem itself ironic is the most dangerous irony of all.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“People need irony in order to build interpersonal trust based on self-knowledge, humor and critical thinking.” — Hanzi Freinacht Copy Share Image
“the thing about irony is you never see it coming; that's how you know it's there.” — Richard Christian Matheson 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
