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David Foster Wallace Quotes
Avoiding any reference to the pop would mean either being retrograde about whats "permissible" in serious art or else writing about some other world. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
But, again, the last twenty years have seen big changes in how writers engage their readers, what readers need to expect from any kind of art. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
Fictions about what it is to be a human being. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fires still going. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
Heres an analogy. The invention of calculus was shocking because for a long time it had simply been presumed that you couldnt divide by zero. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
I just think that fiction that isnt exploring what it means to be human today isnt art. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
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 Quotes
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. Its probably more Western than U.S. per se. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
Raps conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
TVs "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what youre seeing, youll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; its its sole raison. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
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 Quotes
The interesting thing is why were so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
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 Quotes
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so Ill hush. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesnt engage anybody. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
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 Quotes
To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now Im scared about how sappy thisll look in print, saying this. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
Were kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course were uneasy about the fact that we wish theyd come back - I mean, whats wrong with us? - David Foster Wallace Quotes
Were not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the readers own life "outside" the story changes the story. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
Yuppies, I guess, and younger intellectuals, whatever. These are the people pretty much all the younger writers I admire are writing for, I think. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
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