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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 26 quotes by David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American author of novels, short stories and essays, as well as a professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Los Angeles Times book editor David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the... Read full biography of David Foster Wallace → ← Ctrl 1 2 This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it. 0 I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art. 0 Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. 0 Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. 0 This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. 0 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. 0 This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody. 0 We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes... → 0 This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary... → 0 We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean... → 0 TV's 'real' agenda is to be 'liked,' because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely... → 0 It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one. 0 Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. 0 ← Ctrl 1 2 Add a quote!


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26 quotes by David Foster Wallace