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David Foster Wallace Quotes

That what appears to be egoism so often isn’t Picture Quote #1

Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky Picture Quote #1

Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request Picture Quote #1

Every love story is a ghost story Picture Quote #1

If you’ve never wept and want to, have a child Picture Quote #1

... loneliness is not a function of solitude Picture Quote #1

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I don’t want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting Picture Quote #1

When a solipsist dies... everything goes with him Picture Quote #1

My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it Picture Quote #1

Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful Picture Quote #1

The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror Picture Quote #1

I wish you way more than luck Picture Quote #1

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... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak Picture Quote #1

There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness Picture Quote #1

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything Picture Quote #1

Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out Picture Quote #1

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being Picture Quote #1

Nothing brings you together like a common enemy Picture Quote #1

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Fiction’s about what it is to be a human being Picture Quote #1

But of course there are all kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying Picture Quote #1

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, ‘then’ what do we do Picture Quote #1

The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down Picture Quote #1

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point Picture Quote #1

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I’ll hush Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

All I’m saying is that it’s shortsighted to blame TV. It’s simply another symptom. TV didn’t invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression Picture Quote #1

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 themselves. It’s hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings’ windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings’ temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot Picture Quote #1

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That what appears to be egoism so often isn’t (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Every love story is a ghost story (David Foster Wallace Quotes) If you’ve never wept and want to, have a child (David Foster Wallace Quotes) ... loneliness is not a function of solitude (David Foster Wallace Quotes) I don’t want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting (David Foster Wallace Quotes) When a solipsist dies... everything goes with him (David Foster Wallace Quotes) My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful (David Foster Wallace Quotes) The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror (David Foster Wallace Quotes) I wish you way more than luck (David Foster Wallace Quotes) ... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak (David Foster Wallace Quotes) There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness (David Foster Wallace Quotes) If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Fiction is about what it is to be a human being (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Nothing brings you together like a common enemy (David Foster Wallace Quotes) Fiction’s about what it is to be a human being (David Foster Wallace Quotes) But of course there are all kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying (David Foster Wallace Quotes) The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, ‘then’ what do we do (David Foster Wallace Quotes) The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down (David Foster Wallace Quotes) I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point (David Foster Wallace Quotes) The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I’ll hush (David Foster Wallace Quotes) 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 (David Foster Wallace Quotes) 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? (David Foster Wallace Quotes) All I’m saying is that it’s shortsighted to blame TV. It’s simply another symptom. TV didn’t invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression (David Foster Wallace Quotes) 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 themselves. It’s hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency (David Foster Wallace Quotes) 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 (David Foster Wallace Quotes) He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings’ windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings’ temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot (David Foster Wallace Quotes)

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