David Foster Wallace quotes - page 5

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. (David Foster Wallace)
I wish you way more than luck.
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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.
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Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.
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There are secrets within secrets, though--always.
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Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.
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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.
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I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman's eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.
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I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that's odd, isn't it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?
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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
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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. (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.
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For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
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I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.
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So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?
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You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.
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If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.
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sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.
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The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.
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[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.
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She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself. (David Foster Wallace)
Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.
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And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.
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She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.
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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.
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