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David Foster Wallace

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


— David Foster Wallace


#fact #half #human #human beings #now

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.


— David Foster Wallace


#anesthetic #desperate #interesting #interesting thing #loneliness

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.


— David Foster Wallace


#end #itself #more #per #pleasure

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.


— David Foster Wallace


#familiarity #find #important #meditated #most

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.


— David Foster Wallace


#good #like #looks #minimalist #much

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


#desire #desperate #hostility #i #i can

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.


— David Foster Wallace


#exploring #fiction #human #i #just

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


#alarm #cause #cultures #deeper #fire

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


#blacks #conscious #hideous #like #oppression

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


#does #extremely #good #large #large numbers






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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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