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David Foster Wallace  Quotes
Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: 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...

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Life
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Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: 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...

—David Foster Wallace

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ChoiceFreedomMeaninglessness
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I am not sure whether you could call this abuse, but when I was (long ago) abroad in the world of dry men, I saw parents, usually upscale and educated and talented and functional and...

—David Foster Wallace

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DepressionInsecurityParents-And-Children
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I am not what you see and hear.

—David Foster Wallace

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Strange
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I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.

—David Foster Wallace

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It’s weird to feel like you miss someone you’re not even sure you know.

—David Foster Wallace

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LonelinessLonging
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Words and a book and a belief that the world is words…

—David Foster Wallace

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BooksWordsWriting
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the patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfish vehicles driven by the ugliest, most inconsiderate and aggressive drivers, who are usually talking on cell phones as they...

—David Foster Wallace

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AN ACADEMIC DEFINITION of Lynchian might be that the term “refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former’s...

—David Foster Wallace

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The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

—David Foster Wallace

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This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right,...

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AmericansApathyBoredom
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This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose – this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

—David Foster Wallace

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Pleasure
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There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.

—David Foster Wallace

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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...

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Julie le ha dicho a Faye que cree que los amantes pasan por tres fases distintas cuando empiezan a conocerse bien. Primero intercambian anécdotas y gustos. Después se cuentan las cosas en que creen. Y...

—David Foster Wallace

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AmantesLoveLovers
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In a way, what Tarantino has done with the French New Wave and with David Lynch is what Pat Boone did with rhythm and blues: He’s found (ingeniously) a way to take what is ragged...

—David Foster Wallace

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He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.

—David Foster Wallace

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Emptiness
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Who are we to say getting incested or abused or violated or any of those things can’t have their positive aspects in the long run? … You have to be careful of taking a knee-jerk...

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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

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FreedomTruth
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How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?

—David Foster Wallace

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EducationFreedom
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Its emotional character … is probably mostly indescribable except as a sort of double bind in which any/all of the alternatives we associate with human agency —sitting or standing, doing or resting, speaking or keeping...

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Depression
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It may sound reactionary, I know. But we can all feel it. We’ve changed the way we think of ourselves as citizens. We don’t think of ourselves as citizens in the old sense of being...

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AbdicateCitizenshipEntitlement
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The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion.

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Irony
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An ad that pretends to be art is — at absolute best — like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what’s sinister is the...

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AdvertisementsLonelinessSincerity
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

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Writing
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help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.

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Leadership
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She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red.

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Humorous
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the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.” This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental...

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Suicide
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It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their...

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CaringDedication
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I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I’ve seen genius shining off the guy.

—David Foster Wallace

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GeniusQuentin-TarantinoSchmuck
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For me, art that’s alive and urgent is about what it is to be a human being.

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ArtWritingWriting-Advice
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Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.

—David Foster Wallace

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FictionWriting
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If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery halfway facility like Enfield MA’s state-funded Ennet House, you will acquire many exotic...

—David Foster Wallace

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AddictionAlienationKindness
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The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death.It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what...

—David Foster Wallace

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Awareness
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I submit that the real reason we criticized and disliked Lynch’s Laura’s muddy bothness is that it required of us an empathetic confrontation with the exact same muddy bothness in ourselves and our intimates that...

—David Foster Wallace

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CinemaDavid-LynchDavid-Lynch-Keeps-His-Head
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Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It’s like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.

—David Foster Wallace

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AddictionLibrariansProstitutes
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That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do....

—David Foster Wallace

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Truth
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People hate people, not freedom.

—David Foster Wallace

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FreedomHatePeople
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The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems...

—David Foster Wallace

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Maybe it’s the fact the most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older people and then consumed by younger people who not only consume art but study it for clues on...

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ArtsCynicismYouth
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Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.

—David Foster Wallace

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HipIrony
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Weight Watchers holds as a descriptive axiom the transparently true fact that for each of us the universe is deeply and sharply and completely divided into for example in my case, me, on one side,...

—David Foster Wallace

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LonelinessSolipsism
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What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle.

—David Foster Wallace

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Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with that. Unless we’re allowed to think that that’s—that that’s it. That that’s the point, that that’s the goal, you...

—David Foster Wallace

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Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he’s devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits...

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MindsetPerspectivePurpose
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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

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ChildhoodGrowing-Up
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Is it possible that future generations will regard our present agribuisness and eating practices in much the same way we now view Nero’s entertainments or Mengele’s experiments? My own initial reaction is that such a...

—David Foster Wallace

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Animal-LiberationAnimal-RightsEthics
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You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage.

—David Foster Wallace

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AdviseLifeProblems
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The Moms revealed that if you’re not crazy then speaking to someone who isn’t there is termed apostrophe and is valid art.

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ArtCrazy
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To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.1010 One has only to spend a term trying to teach college literature to realize...

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LiteratureTeaching
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