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
american-writer blacks conscious hideous oppression parody response sixties
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
perfectionism fidelity ifs
If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.
loneliness writing thinking
You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.
technology years two
My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.
worship-you choices atheism
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
vacation anxiety kind
There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.
tiny goes-on littles
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.
worship-you choices yahweh
Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
passports knows
Not having a passport makes me very blasé about what appears in foreign periodicals since I know I'll never see it.
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.
ghost-stories love-story jest
Every love story is a ghost story.
parent doubt adults
I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.
seductive tourettes genuine
...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.