Literary Quotes
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"Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?"
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity"
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier")."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"What goes on inside is 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 it at any given instant."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void. And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. And We said: 'Look at that fucker Dance."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish"
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"Sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"... That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable".""
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear"
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these are just the hazards of being free."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?"
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace
"I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion."
Quote by -David Foster Wallace