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David Foster Wallace

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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

Insects all business all the time.


— David Foster Wallace


#business

Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.


— David Foster Wallace


#dieting-humor #diet

the American nation today is infantile so much as adolescent—that is ambivalent in its twin desire for both authoritarian structure and the end of parental hegemony


— David Foster Wallace


#dreams

People hate people, not freedom.


— David Foster Wallace


#hate #people #freedom

I think serious art is supposed to make us confront things that are difficult in ourselves and in the world.


— David Foster Wallace


#serious-art #art

Advertising that makes fun of itself is so powerful because it implicitly congratulates both itself and the viewer (for making the joke and getting the joke, respectively).


— David Foster Wallace


#self-referential #respect

For me, boviscopophobia (=the morbid fear of being seen as bovine) is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.


— David Foster Wallace


#phobias #travel #motivational

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.


— David Foster Wallace


#die #even #even now #how #i

Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.


— David Foster Wallace


#being #fiction #human #human being






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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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