The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the — David Foster Wallace
The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities — David Foster Wallace
What tv is extremely good at – and realize that this is “all it does” – is discerning what — David Foster Wallace
Tv’s “real” agenda is to be “liked,” because if you like what you’re seeing, you’ll stay tuned. — David Foster Wallace
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern — David Foster Wallace
This is so american, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it. — David Foster Wallace
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I’ll hush. — David Foster Wallace
The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still “are” human beings, now. Or can be. — David Foster Wallace
The interesting thing is why we’re so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. — David Foster Wallace
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of — David Foster Wallace
Rap’s conscious response to the poverty and oppression of u.s. Blacks is like some — David Foster Wallace
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the — David Foster Wallace
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It’s probably more western than u.s. Per se. — David Foster Wallace
One of the things that makes wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no — David Foster Wallace
Nuclear weapons and tv have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. — David Foster Wallace
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most “familiarity” is meditated and delusive. — David Foster Wallace
I think tv promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and — David Foster Wallace
It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one. — David Foster Wallace
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to — David Foster Wallace
I just think that fiction that isn’t exploring what it means to be human today isn’t art. — David Foster Wallace
For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would — David Foster Wallace
