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
games balls attention
The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.
odd i-can
How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
cutting ears tarantino
Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.
inspirational book reading
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
lonely loneliness psychics
Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.
loneliness writing thinking
You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.
perfectionism fidelity ifs
If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.
philosophy use four
I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.
home white guy
....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.
home white guy
....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.
facts half humans
The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.