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Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.
~ David Foster Wallace
the air over the table like the sparkling space just above a fresh-poured seltzer.
~ David Foster Wallace
I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
~ David Foster Wallace
So my offense is what, misdemeanor gargling?
~ David Foster Wallace
It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the ghost. Never
~ David Foster Wallace
gesture a lot and look wild-eyed and generally pissed-off in some broad geopolitical way.
~ David Foster Wallace
I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy.
~ David Foster Wallace
The teeth of the smile evidenced a clinical depressive's classic inattention to oral hygiene.
~ David Foster Wallace
Or like just another manipulative pseudopomo Bullshit artist who's trying to salvage a fiasco by dropping back to a metadimention and commenting on the fiasco itself. (p. 158)
~ David Foster Wallace
I ara vosaltres sigueu feliços, cagom déu.» ?Paraules televisades, Despatx Oval, Casa Blanca Novembre de 1987
~ David Foster Wallace
Fuck the Albertans, Steeply said. Who's worried about the Albertans? The Albertans' idea of a blow to the U.S. plexus is they blow up rangeland in Montana. They're wackos.
~ David Foster Wallace
Is it showing off if you hate it?
~ David Foster Wallace
When he settles in with the tray and cartridge, the TP's viewer's digital display reads 1927h.
~ David Foster Wallace
How can you be so ugly to me?" "'Cause I'm bored, and when a man gets bored enough he gets like an animal. I'm an animal now, feels like.
~ David Foster Wallace
Being the worst confirmation of the worst kind of generation gap stereotype and parental disgust for their decadent, wastoid kids
~ David Foster Wallace
To try and forget, rasa the tabula, wipe the memory totally out, numb it with opiates.
~ David Foster Wallace
Or are you just looking for some Cliff-Note summary so you can incorporate the impression of depth into some new panty-removal campaign?
~ David Foster Wallace
both of whom give Avril a howling case of the maternal fantods.
~ David Foster Wallace
David Cronenberg's mainstream Crash comes out of absolutely nowhere to win something called Best Alternative Adult Feature Film.
~ David Foster Wallace
The Moms revealed that if you're not crazy then speaking to someone who isn't there is termed apostrophe and is valid art.
~ David Foster Wallace
Under what presidential administration was this room last deep-cleaned, I'm standing here prompted to fucking muse out loud,' my father said.
~ David Foster Wallace
Hal is maybe the one male E.T.A. for whom lifetime virginity is a conscious goal.
~ David Foster Wallace
Thanks. SHULGSHULGSPAHHH… Whew. Ah.
~ David Foster Wallace
This argument is not the barrel of drugged trout that Methodological Descriptivism was, but it's still vulnerable to objections.
~ David Foster Wallace