Literary Quotes
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"You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit’sOKit’sOKit’sOK, over and over. From very far away."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine..."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"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."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me?"
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"The true thoughts that go on inside us are 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 us at any given instant."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers..."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets, listen. Hear it? It's a love song. For whom? You are loved."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"She committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace