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
important way reminding
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.
mean mad emptiness
Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.
lines dimensions tourists
To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.
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.
anxiety marketing advertising
It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.
personal-courage infinite-jest weak
... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
life thinking people
You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
business real cowboy
You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it's needed ... You deal in facts, gentlemen, for which there has been a market since man first crept from the primeval slurry.
crazy style laid-back
God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about.
believe numbers people
Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers.
stupid dark men
Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?
worship-you choices yahweh
Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
dog night giving
Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.
wise interesting pay
Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.