Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““Two clocks, two ghosts, one square acre of hidden mirror.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“To every hour, its mystery. At dawn, the riddles of life and light. At noon, the conundrums of solidity. At three, in the hum… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“I often spend half the night with ghosts, remembering times fifty years past as if they were yesterday. The mystery of a midnight visitor… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Clocks served two purposes, in my opinion. The first was to tell people the time, and the second to impress upon me that time… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“And as the hands of the clocks clicked to eight past one, the house awoke to the sudden and definite realization that now was… — Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
“A few seconds later, my father broke his big toe; but his accident was a mere trifle when set beside what had befallen me… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“We had any number of clocks surrounding us, and every one of them at one time or another exhibited a lively sense of humor.” — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“Aside from all else, there is some truth in that; clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“What a pity clocks don't realize the interesting work they do in making history, as they go on ticking out moments which never before… — Alice Muriel Williamson Copy Share Image
“And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“But one thing I do know: life and time are ghosted creatures for us all. They belong to us - and are not ours… — Joan D. Chittister 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
