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David Foster Wallace Quotes & Sayings

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27 entries tagged including 4 subtopics.
Last updated Mar 2023

David Foster Wallace Topics

Flaws
Desperation
Self Conscious

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That no matter how smart you thought you were, you are actually way less smart than that.

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What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is all it does - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

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We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life outside the story changes the story.

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We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?

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TV's eal 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.

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To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.

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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

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This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

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This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.

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This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.

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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

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The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, hen what do we do?

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The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still are human beings, now. Or can be.

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The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

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The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

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Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

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Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

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One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

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It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most familiarity is meditated and delusive.

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