What did David Foster Wallace mean by: Every love story is a ghost story. David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA Copy
+ Words and a book and a belief that the world is words. Author, September 6, 2023January 2, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Belief, Book, Words, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Expectation, Success, Talent, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Communication, Deception, Knowledge, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
The interesting thing is why we’re so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Connection, Desperation, Isolation, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ I don’t want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting. Author, June 5, 2023January 2, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Healing, Pain, Recovery, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ The man who knows his limitations, has none. Author, August 2, 2023January 2, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Confidence, Potential, Self-awareness, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it. Author, July 17, 2023January 2, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Acceptance, Attachment, Loss, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ …logical validity is not a guarantee of truth. Author, August 11, 2023January 2, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Logic, Truth, Validity, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I’m not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Jean Cocteau Artist · France