David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallacewas an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist, as well as a professor of English and creative writing. Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth21 February 1962
CountryUnited States of America
David Foster Wallace quotes about
guarantees infinite-jest logical
...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.
integrity sleep forever
The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.
bottles labels smooth
She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.
rejection connections painful
The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.
loneliness solitude function
...loneliness is not a function of solitude.
nihilism stills
Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.
loneliness fiction relieved
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.
graduation worship
You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.
archer heart battle
And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.
ought
Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to.
loneliness interesting being-lonely
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
weapons tvs nuclear
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
distress restroom concentrating
I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.
prodigies handle
Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.