Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It’s probably more Western than U.S. per se. David Foster Wallace Read Quote
For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire’s still going. David Foster Wallace Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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? David Foster Wallace Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still ‘are’ human beings, now. Or can be. David Foster Wallace Read Quote
Rap’s conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. David Foster Wallace Read Quote
