What did David Foster Wallace mean by: Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It’s probably more Western than U.S. per se. - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA Copy
+ …the sun would leave my sky if I couldn’t assume you’d simply come and tell me you were sad. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Assumption, Sky, Sun, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Fiction is about what it is to be a human being. Feraz Zeid, September 23, 2023December 24, 2023, David Foster Wallace, Fiction, Human, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. Feraz Zeid, June 21, 2023December 12, 2023, David Foster Wallace, Freedom, Truth, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Do not underestimate objects. Feraz Zeid, August 7, 2023December 12, 2023, David Foster Wallace, Objects, Underestimate, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Attention, Important, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ The interesting thing is why we’re so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Being Lonely, Interesting, Loneliness, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Ideally, each piece of art’s its own unique object, and its evaluation’s always present-tense. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Art, Evaluation, Unique, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ …logical validity is not a guarantee of truth. Feraz Zeid, August 11, 2023December 12, 2023, David Foster Wallace, Guarantees, Infinite Jest, Logical, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art. - Ludwig van Beethoven Composer · Germany
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure. - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is. - Jean Genet Playwright · France
