David Foster Wallace Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
David Foster Wallace quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased writer born on Feb 21, 1962). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 26 we have for him.
“The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.”
“The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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, what's wrong with us?”
“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?”
“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.”
“This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.”
“It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.”
“Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.”
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