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
worship-you choices yahweh
Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
anxiety marketing advertising
It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.
personal-courage infinite-jest weak
... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
lines dimensions tourists
To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.
important way reminding
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.
thinking confusion people
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.
passports knows
Not having a passport makes me very blasé about what appears in foreign periodicals since I know I'll never see it.
attachment giving care
Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith. . . . Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.
important engineers happens
Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.
want sound made
I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear
loneliness fiction treated
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
missing-someone like-you infinite-jest
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
reform dialect facts
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.
light lambs littles
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.