Top 38 David Lipsky Quotes
#2. Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans.
Lauren Graham
#3. David thought books existed to stop you from feeling lonely.
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#4. I know people who are medicated and it's their favorite subject.
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#5. All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. My ambition is to not embarrass myself
which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.
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#9. I'm talking about the number of privileged, highly intelligent, motivated career-track people that I know, from my high school or college, who are, if you look into their eyes, empty and miserable.
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#11. Entertainment's chief job is to make you so riveted by it that you can't tear your eyes away, so the advertisers can advertise.
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#12. David (David Foster Wallace) had a caffeine social gift: Her was charmingly, vividly, overwhelmingly awake - he acted on other people like a slug of coffee - so they're the five most sleepless days I every spent with anyone.
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#13. The way to finish the book is to turn down the volume on the stuff that's all about how other people react.
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#14. One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.
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#15. It's just much easier with dogs. You don't get laid; but you also don't get the feeling you're hurting their feelings all the time.
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#16. I think the reason why people behave in an ugly manner is that it's really scary to be alive and to be human, and people are really really afraid.
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#17. Because we're gonna get so interested in entertainment that we're not gonna want to do the work that generates the income that buys the products that pays for the advertising that disseminates the entertainment.
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#18. It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.
Marya Mannes
#19. People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.
Sam Lipsyte
#20. A cute nickname was the first mile marker on Gag Highway, heading straight to Relationshipville. And making up the names of fake roads and cities to express your unhappiness was probably the first step to insanity.
Emma Mills
#21. But the sort of - this confusion of permissions, or this idea that pleasure and comfort are the, are really the ultimate goal and meaning of life. I think we're starting to see a generation die ... on the toxicity of that idea.
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#22. But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell Another sensibility like mine exists.
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#23. David Foster Wallace: We sit around and bitch about how TV has ruined the audience for reading - when really all it's done is given us the really precious gift of making our job harder.
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#24. I was half-afraid that I would do something awful, like faint or fart right in front of the queen, but all went well.
Oliver Sacks
#25. Hemingway changed prose; so did Salinger and Nabokov.
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#26. David Foster Wallace: I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.
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#27. And I think that the ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn't mean anything. Which means you get to start early the work of figuring out what does mean something
David Foster Wallace
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#28. [We do some TV talk. He loves Seinfeld, thinks Friends is a little gooey.
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#29. We all carry success gene within us, but its manifestation is our responsibility.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#30. He had finished and collected the three years of drafts [of Infinite Jest], and finally sat down and typed the whole thing. Wallace didn't really type; he input the giant thing twice, with one finger. But a really fast finger.
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#31. He [David Foster Wallace] compares raising children to raising books, you should take pride in the work you do inside a family and not from how they make out in the world. "It's good to want a child to do well, but it's bad to want that glory to reflect back on you," is what he says.
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#33. I finished and e-mailed to myself to see what it'd read like to open, and decided it looked a little loopy and that I'd been the right person to open it after all. I read him, thought about him, and I never saw him again except on television once.
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#34. The point of books was to combat loneliness
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#35. What if I agree to call you darling from now on, and you agree to call me Joseph?" Her expression was equal parts disbelief and amusement. "I always call you Joseph." "I know. I just really like the way you say it." She gave him a sidelong look. "Are you talking sweet to me, Joseph?
Sarah M. Eden
#36. David Foster Wallace: There's so much beauty and profundity in all kinds of shitty pop culture all around us.
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#37. David Foster Wallace: Because I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then.
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#38. I'm not sure we're any better, but able to describe the attempt to track our wandering in circles in a way that perhaps somebody else can identify with. I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.
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