"It did what all ads are supposed to……" — David Foster Wallace

"It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase."

— David Foster Wallace

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303 Quotes by David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace has 303 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough…
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who…
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional…
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you…
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were,…
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one…
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky…
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare…
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus…
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas.… — Jensen Ackles
I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it… — Alan Ball
Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic. — Martha Beck
Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you… — William Bernbach
Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make. — William Bernbach
The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to… — Jeff Bezos
Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide… — David Boies
I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world. — Leo Burnett
I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write… — Leo Burnett
The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind… — Jackie Chan
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we… — Richard Dawkins

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