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David Foster Wallace

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There’s been time this whole time. You can’t kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.


— David Foster Wallace


#men

My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.


— David Foster Wallace


#simile #simile

In life, the microphone passes your lips but once... you had better be ready to sing.


— David Foster Wallace


#inspirational

I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves.


— David Foster Wallace


#reading #imagination

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.


— David Foster Wallace


#death

For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.


— David Foster Wallace


#meaning #war #love

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.


— David Foster Wallace


#human-nature #responsibility #television #world #nature

Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.


— David Foster Wallace


#dreams

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though--and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.


— David Foster Wallace


#artist #exhibition #irony #persona #success

I am about art here, not simple reproduction.


— David Foster Wallace


#art






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A filmed adaptation of Brief Interviews directed by John Krasinski was released in 2009 and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. When he experienced severe side effects from the medication Wallace attempted to wean himself from his primary antidepressant phenelzine. Wallace's mother Sally Foster Wallace attended graduate school in English Composition at the University of Illinois and became a professor of English at Parkland College—a community college in Champaign—where David Foster Wallace won a national Professor of the Year award in 1996.

With his suicide he left behind an unfiniDavid Foster Wallaced novel The Pale King which was subsequently publiDavid Foster Wallaced in 2011 and in 2012 was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story was publiDavid Foster Wallaced in September 2012. David Foster Wallace (February 21 1962 – September 12 2008) was an award-winning American novelist short story writer essayist and professor at Pomona College in Claremont California.

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