Quotes By David Foster Wallace BACK
- Everybody is identical in their
- The truth will set you
- I do things like get
- Two young salmon are swimming
- That sometimes human beings have
- Its like a fugue of
- There is no hatred in
- Genuine pathological openness is about
- Say the whole point of
- Im very bright but Im
- Boo I think I no
- True heroism is minutes hours
- To really try to be
- Theres a grosser irony about
- Who would die for this
- Its a very American illness
- There are secrets within secrets
- I miss everyone I can
- Stated as an English sentence
- I received 500000 discrete bits
- The fun of reading as
- Stay conscious and alive day
- Hear this or not as
- Its weird to feel like
- Entertainment provides relief Art provokes
- I read I say I
- In the day to day
- And meteorologists have nothing to
- But if I decide to
- What TV is extremely good
- This appetite to choose death
- I mean the people who
- The capital T Truth is
- The fact that the most
- Theres a certain kind of
- Mediocrity is contextual
- Words and a book and
- Some persons can give themselves
- When they were introduced he
- I wish you way more
- One of the things that
- Writing fiction takes me out
- Acceptance is usually more a
- Quentin Tarantino is interested in
- we live in an era
- He suddenly felt nothing or
- Fiction poetry musicthese are the
- It means being conscious and
- What passes for hip cynical
- K When they say I
- Were all lonely for something
- This thing I feel I
- Happiness is not like we
- Whatever you get paid attention
- I have always tried to
- In the broadest possible sense
- The job of the first
- The capital T Truth is
- Almost anything that you pay
- If Realism called it like
- I like the fans sound
- Everybody worships The only choice
- Fiction is one of the
- But there are all different
- If you can think of
- Probably the most dangerous thing
- I tend to think of
- America as everybody knows is
- morning is the souls night
- What goes on inside is
- It now lately sometimes seemed
- My bones are ringing the
- To make someone an icon
- Its all very confusing I
- I felt as I became
- Its in the democratic citizens
- the psychological need to believe
- Scenery is here Wish you
- Most of the writers I
- Learning how to think really
- But if youve really learned
- The man who knows his
- Psychotics say what you want
- If youve never wept and
- Dieting makes me want to
- Great short stories and great
- I have heard upscale adult
- logical validity is not a
- The way I think about
- The interesting thing is why
- Perhaps this is what it
- And when he came to
- There are very few innocent
- I had by thirteen developed
- If your fidelity to perfectionism
- The assumption that you everyone
- Talent is its own expectation
- The lives of most people
- We are not dead but
- The problem is that once
- Although the only way that
- That as people age accumulate
- In this country were unprecedentedly
- The parts of me that
- My own terror of appearing
- TVs real agenda is to
- I find in myself a
- Here is how to handle
- Im screaming for help and
- There are no choices without
- That it is statistically easier
- It did what all ads
- Id like to be the
- To be a mass tourist
- The integrity of my sleep
- Fiction becomes a weird way
- Theres a kind of Ah
- The great thing about irony
- You have a great deal
- It feels intensely twisted to
- Good writing isnt a science
- You will become way less
- He knew what the Beats
- Everything takes time Bees have
- Are we not all of
- In fact the likeliest reason
- John McEnroewas arguably the best
- So which is the lie
- Mario what do you get
- This is not a matter
- If some people read my
- Worship power you will feel
- My personal belief is that
- Keep in mind that a
- The real irony is that
- Ill say God seems to
- Or I can choose to
- Both destinys kisses and its
- If youre automatically sure that
- Of course the fact that
- Raps conscious response to the
- Ideally each piece of arts
- The depressed person was in
- She wanted only tall smooth
- Am I a good person
- How odd I can have
- The new rebels might be
- Most really pretty girls have
- You are what you love
- If the writer does his
- A novelist has to know
- Nothing brings you together like
- The key is the ability
- there is an ending to
- To be willing to sort
- People unless theyre paying attention
- My chest bumps like a
- Fiction is one of the
- She had a brainy girls
- Good literature makes your head
- We live today in a
- I submit that tennis is
- This might be one way
- Bliss a second by second
- So yo then man whats
- No wonder we cannot appreciate
- Pleasure becomes a value a
- Beauty is not the goal
- Im not putting any of
- That everything is on fire
- I was never the sort
- I was always either so
- The reason our pervasive cultural
- Footnote 79 The anchor is
- Why not Why notWhy not
- A lot of writers tired
- I will probably write an
- The first time I lay
- The desire for perfect release
- and suddenly it occurred to
- I dont think writers are
- One paradox of professional writing
- Try to learn to let
- The entire ball game in
- It is tragic and sad
- This is nourishing redemptive we
- Some words have to be
- Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te
- Does somebody have an explanation
- The point of books is
- I know Im paranoid but
- It can become an exercise
- Certain sincerely devout and spiritually
- What teachers and the administration
- And he wishes in the
- To be in a word
- The basic idea that the
- Mario what do you get
- loneliness is not a function
- No single individual moment is
- He said she went around
- All Im saying is that
- I love the way you
- Real leaders are people who
- You dont have to think
- For me boviscopophobia is an
- Tell them there are no
- Kafkas evocations are rather unconscious
- Everything gets horrible Everything you
- sarcasm and jokes were often
- The severing of an established
- Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity
- If you worship power you
- The individuals right to pursue
- I want to tell you
- I am concentrating docilely on
- Lonely people tend rather to
- I think the only thing
- The greatest sin is appearing
- Im not afraid of new
- Under funs new administration writing
- When a solipsist dies everything
- My whole life Ive been
- What the really great artists
- I know I never work
- There is no such thing
- At root vulgar just means
- If youre writing fiction youre
- We all suffer alone in
- The reader becomes God for
- I dont want to hurt
- I felt the sort of
- For these cultures getting rid
- Worship your body beauty and
- I often think I can
- Like so many other nerdy
- Mary had a little lamb
- There is such a thing
- In reality there is no
- Not having a passport makes
- He didnt reject the idea
- It took years after Id
- I was trained mainly as
- Hal Incandenza has an almost
- You get to consciously decide
- Almost nothing important that ever
- Our attachments are our temple
- She took a sort of
- basically the sort of guy
- I just think that fiction
- There happen to be whole
- every failure is also a
- I have filled 3 Mead
- Such techniques including meta discursive
- No one can call themselves
- Lucky people develop a relationship
- she committed suicide by putting
- Nuclear weapons and TV have
- Most of us will still
- For those whove never experienced
- I am not what you
- This is so American man
- I knew my limitations and
- Dostoevski informs everybody or he
- Were not keen on the
- You have wondered perhaps why
- It was when I was
- I had kind of a
- I have now seen sucrose
- Not that that mystical stuffs
- God what a ghastly enterprise
- Do not underestimate objects
- In dark times the definition
- American experience seems to suggest
- The other half is to
- Think of the old clich
- I never even for a
- Molly Notkin often confides on
- It seems important to find
- It takes great personal courage
- The point here is to
- The sound of wind had
- the most obvious ubiquitous important
- The really important kind of
- Its probably hard to feel
- I believe I want adult
- Many people in America throw
- Look man wed probably most
- the sun would leave my
- most Substance addicted people are
- Like most North Americans of
- Everything in my own immediate
- Theres a weird kind of
- I perhaps could have been
- Everything Ive ever let go
- You can be shaped or
- I think its easy to
- My worst character flaw that
- Please learn the pragmatics of
- This diagnosis can be done
- lifes endless war against the
- If you spend enough time
- To experience commitment as the
- Progressive liberals seem incapable of
- I read I say I
- I cannot say what color
- I think TV promulgates the
- What if sometimes there is
- The Sophists had this idea
- Do this hate him for
- These worst mornings with cold
- There are these two young
- That what appears to be
- God seems to have a
- You have decided being scared
- We will of course without
- In reality genuine epiphanies are
- I wasnt all that attracted
- I had four hundred thousand
- Fiction is about what it
- Id tell you all you
- Truly decent innocent people can
- I submit that tennis is
- Every love story is a