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I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.


David Foster Wallace

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DAVID FOSTER WALLACE If you can think of times in your life that you've treated people with extraordinary decency and lov...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Eyes the broad-shouldered faceless character that symbolizes Men’s Room, does Sternberg, and strug...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE When something large and oncoming passed, the windshield's big rectangle was for a moment incandesce...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I am fortunately an entirely handsome devil and appear even younger than twenty-nine. I look like a ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE But and so things are slow, and like you they have this irritating suspicion that any real satisfact...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Sometimes, when I don't think about it, I think I have just totally escaped the Bad Thing, and that ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE If I’m hanging out with you, I can’t even tell whether I like you or not because I’m too worri...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I'm not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vu...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE JAY: No really. Be secure. Pretend I'm a sperm cell. Here. I take the string out of the... hood of m...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Te occidere possunt sed te edere possunt nefas est.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Il suicidio è così contrario a tanti nostri istinti e impulsi programmati che nessuno sano di ment...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Blue Springs Memorial Hospital Palliative Care Unit, Independence, Mo.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The truth is you've already heard this. That this is what it's like. That it's what makes room for t...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others’ self esteem simply as a function...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It's not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die, by the way...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE ...this was depressing, much the way discovering that somebody is easy to manipulate is always a lit...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I don't think he was used to patients who were already aware of what their real problem was. He was ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt had very nearly nothing left anymore of the delusion that he di...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE -when he thinks of the starry-eyed puerility and narcissism of these fantasies now, a rough decade l...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE *One clue that there’s something not quite real about sequential time the way you experience it i...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Atwater knew — as did everyone at Style, though by some strange unspoken consensus it was never sa...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The reality is that dying isn’t bad, but it takes forever. And that forever is no time at all. I k...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE (..)-Dr. G. would later say that the whole "my whole life flashed before me" phenomenon at the end i...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Even as I wrote my note to Fern, for instance, expressing sentiments and regrets that were real, a p...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE If I understand you right,' he says, 'you're saying that you're basically a calculating manipulative...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function o...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of wha...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The truth is you already know what it's like. You already know the difference between the size and s...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of cours...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE When he smoked marijuana he tended to masterbate a great deal.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit�...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Here is how to turn down an extramural date so you won't be asked again. Say something like I'm terr...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE the patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfi...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE This, of course, is because today’s postfeminist era is also today’s postmodern era, in which su...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE You don’t have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness �...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fac...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.
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