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To be, in a word, unborable.....

To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish

David Foster Wallace 370 quotes

Learning how to think really ...

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.

David Foster Wallace 370 quotes

Everybody is identical in the...

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

David Foster Wallace 370 quotes

Are we not all of us fanatics...

Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen. Die for one person? This is a craziness. Persons change, leave, die, become ill. They leave, lie, go mad, have sickness, betray you, die. Your nation outlives you. A cause outlives you.

David Foster Wallace 370 quotes

Almost anything that you pay ...

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

David Foster Wallace 370 quotes

Try to learn to let what is u...

Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

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...logical validity is not a ...

...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

David Foster Wallace 370 quotes

I think TV promulgates the id...

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 370 quotes

We're not keen on the idea of...

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 the story.

David Foster Wallace 370 quotes

This is nourishing, redemptiv...

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

David Foster Wallace 370 quotes

It can become an exercise in ...

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 370 quotes

TV's 'real' agenda is to be '...

TV's 'real' agenda is to be 'liked,' because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.

David Foster Wallace 370 quotes

Fiction's about what it is to...

Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.

David Foster Wallace 370 quotes

The other half is to dramatiz...

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.

David Foster Wallace 370 quotes

We're kind of wishing some pa...

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 370 quotes

Am I a good person? Deep down...

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

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The problem is that once the ...

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 370 quotes

This might be one way to star...

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 370 quotes

For these cultures, getting r...

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 370 quotes

Nuclear weapons and TV have s...

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

David Foster Wallace 370 quotes

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