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David Foster Wallace

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Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.


— David Foster Wallace


#humor #dating

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.


— David Foster Wallace


#capitalism #consumerism #dfw #solipsism #dreams

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.


— David Foster Wallace


#truth #beauty

she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.


— David Foster Wallace


#suicide #funny

Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto.


— David Foster Wallace


#love #love

Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.


— David Foster Wallace


#postmodernism #humor

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.


— David Foster Wallace


#growing-up #death

When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.


— David Foster Wallace


#john-updike #solipsism #death

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.


— David Foster Wallace


#life

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.


— David Foster Wallace


#readers #writers #inspirational






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A filmed adaptation of Brief Interviews directed by John Krasinski was released in 2009 and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. When he experienced severe side effects from the medication Wallace attempted to wean himself from his primary antidepressant phenelzine. Wallace's mother Sally Foster Wallace attended graduate school in English Composition at the University of Illinois and became a professor of English at Parkland College—a community college in Champaign—where David Foster Wallace won a national Professor of the Year award in 1996.

With his suicide he left behind an unfiniDavid Foster Wallaced novel The Pale King which was subsequently publiDavid Foster Wallaced in 2011 and in 2012 was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story was publiDavid Foster Wallaced in September 2012. David Foster Wallace (February 21 1962 – September 12 2008) was an award-winning American novelist short story writer essayist and professor at Pomona College in Claremont California.

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