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David Foster Wallace Quotes

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I’ll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about. I’m pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I’m not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood’s limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood’s end  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I’m an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn’t enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham would be great fiction writers, and by any but the most commercial standards they’re not even very good  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart-you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or televisual values rule the culture. Television is successfully using a lot of those same techniques but using them for a very different agenda, which is to sort of create an ethos and please people and to sell products to consumers  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I’m bullshitting myself, morally speaking?  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) My worst character flaw that I’m conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It’s paralyzing and boring for people around me.  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket’s checkout line is just as bored and frustrated as I am, and that some of these people probably have much harder, more tedious or painful lives than I do, overall.  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) ...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) I’m not afraid of new things. I’m just afraid of feeling alone even when there’s somebody else there. I’m afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that’s selfish, but it’s the way I feel.  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) I’d like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves. They’re entirely themselves, they’ve got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it’s authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) I don’t think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) I just think that fiction that isn’t exploring what it means to be human today isn’t art  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn’t engage anybody  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) I love the way you love, but I hate the way I’m supposed to love you back  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting  (David Foster Wallace Quotes) People, unless they’re paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority  (David Foster Wallace Quotes)
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