What did David Foster Wallace mean by: Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA Copy
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 just think that fiction that isn’t exploring what it means to be human today isn’t art. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Art, Exploration, Humanity, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
…the sun would leave my sky if I couldn’t assume you’d simply come and tell me you were sad. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Communication, Dependence, Love, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Awareness, Emptiness, Madness, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Kindness, Purity, Selflessness, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Mediocrity is contextual. Author, October 9, 2023January 2, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Comparison, Standards, Subjectivity, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement. Author, June 21, 2023January 2, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Art, Engagement, Relief, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ life’s endless war against the self you cannot live without. Author, October 3, 2023January 2, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Growth, Self-discovery, Struggle, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
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