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15 David Foster Wallace Quotes & Sayings
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15 David Foster Wallace Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 21 February 1962. Died: 12 September 2008 |
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This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.
David Foster Wallace
Alone
Become
Inside
Less
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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.
David Foster Wallace
Alarm
Cause
Cultures
Deeper
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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.
David Foster Wallace
Between
Contemporary
Descendants
Differences
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TV's 'real' agenda is to be 'liked,' because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.
David Foster Wallace
Agenda
Because
Real
Sole
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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.
David Foster Wallace
Admire
Art
Become
Creative
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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
Art
Brings
Depend
Good
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
David Foster Wallace
Coupled
Desire
Desperate
Hostility
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Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
David Foster Wallace
About
Being
Fiction
Human
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The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.
David Foster Wallace
Beings
Fact
Half
Human
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I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
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Art
Exploring
Fiction
Human
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We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.
David Foster Wallace
Changes
Idea
Keen
Life
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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
David Foster Wallace
Becomes
Eyes
God
Over
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It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.
David Foster Wallace
Bleeding
Good
Like
Looks
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The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
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Apart
Flaws
Great
Irony
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We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?
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Come
Course
Fact
Kind
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David Foster Wallace Quotes & Sayings