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
love-is trying care
Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.
character thinking circles
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.
hurt want
I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.
thinking dies what-you-love
You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.
sky sun assuming
...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.
court persons conditions
I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in bad conditions.
ought
Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to.
thinking people terrified
I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.
philosophy use four
I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.
rap pride black
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
night sound fans
I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit’sOKit’sOKit’sOK, over and over. From very far away.
eye purpose hush
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
real tvs agendas
TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.
sports expression goal
Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.