What did David Foster Wallace mean by: Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself. David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA Copy
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It’s probably more Western than U.S. per se. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Pleasure, Value, Western, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Beauty, Insecurity, Perception, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Author, August 11, 2023January 2, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Logic, Truth, Validity, 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
+ Author, September 15, 2023January 2, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Emotions, Parenthood, Transformation, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Author, November 6, 2023January 2, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Consciousness, Life, Survival, 0 David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Foster Wallace, Identity, Self-doubt, Survival, 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
