David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate February 21, 1962

Zodiac Pisces

Location Ithaca, New York

Country United States

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David Foster Wallace Quotes

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says

Tags: humor

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

Tags: fiction loneliness

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

Tags: advertising anxiety

...that, to repeat what I heard for years and years and suspect you

Tags: meaning sweeping

When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information I'm trying to convey) is only one part of it. Another part is stuff about me, the communicator. Everyone knows this. It's a function of the fact there are so many different well-formed ways to say the same basic thing, from e.g.

Tags: bear communication language

The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.

Tags: humor

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they

Tags: cruelty doubt innocence parents

The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.

Tags: crazy

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

Tags: insight

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

Tags: awareness caring discipline freedom love people sacrifice

Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get to the side of, to see whether deLint has a true z coordinate or is just a cutout or projection.

Tags: math

The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death.

It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:

Tags: awareness

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