My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago. David Foster Wallace More Quotes by David Foster Wallace More Quotes From David Foster Wallace What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant. David Foster Wallace tinygoes-onlittles My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me. David Foster Wallace circlescharacterthinking The man who knows his limitations, has none. David Foster Wallace limitationknowsmen The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die. David Foster Wallace useddifferentthinking Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable. David Foster Wallace writingwayfiction Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better. David Foster Wallace get-betterwritingart It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. David Foster Wallace payattentionmean It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again. David Foster Wallace lovelycitizenslimits People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority. David Foster Wallace pay-attentionattentionpeople Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else. David Foster Wallace fatigueacceptancematter There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. David Foster Wallace anxiety-attacksinfinite-jestkindness I wish you way more than luck. David Foster Wallace luckwishway I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I. David Foster Wallace issuesstylecrazy Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out. David Foster Wallace aliveconscious Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. David Foster Wallace treatedlonelinessfiction Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own. David Foster Wallace leaderrealpeople If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important - if you want to operate on your default-setting - then you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren't pointless and annoying. David Foster Wallace importantwantreality It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else suffered the same secret fears and inadequacies as I, and that feeling alone and inferior was actually the great valent bond between us all. I wish I’d been smart enough to understand that when I was an adolescent. David Foster Wallace smartbookyears Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it. David Foster Wallace addictionletting-goinspirational Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in private. And there's also a strange loneliness, and a desire to have some kind of conversation with people, but not a real great ability to do it in person. David Foster Wallace lonelinessstrongreal
