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David Foster Wallace

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The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?


— David Foster Wallace


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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


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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.


— David Foster Wallace


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This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.


— David Foster Wallace


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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


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One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.


— David Foster Wallace


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


— David Foster Wallace


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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


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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


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This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.


— David Foster Wallace


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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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