Top 28 Quotes About Dfw
#1. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoot themselves in ... the head. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger.
David Foster Wallace
#2. You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice,
Abdullah Ocalan
#4. The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.
David Foster Wallace
#5. [Uncentering the Earth] itself is uncentering in the best possible way. Vollmann is one of the deepest, most fully ensouled writers alive.
David Foster Wallace
#6. I have a map of the United States ... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.
Steven Wright
#7. The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.
David Foster Wallace
#8. The point of books was to combat loneliness
David Lipsky
#9. If I'm hanging out with you, I can't even tell whether I like you or not because I'm too worried about whether you like me.
David Foster Wallace
#11. I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.
Ian McKellen
#12. He was the yin to my yang, the frick to my frack, the melba toast to my Chex.
Alice Clayton
#13. I never really was good at being a family general man, really. I hardly ever spent any time with my mum and dad whatever, really, or brothers or sisters. We just really didn't get along. I was pretty much like the black sheep of the family, to be honest.
Andrew Chan
#14. Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.
Napoleon Hill
#15. The Book of Mormon is so good it makes me f**king angry.
Jon Stewart
#16. The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self.
Muhammad
#18. Be faithful in the little things, for in them our strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.
Mother Teresa
#19. He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.
Harold Bloom
#20. When something large and oncoming passed, the windshield's big rectangle was for a moment incandesced and opaque with water, which the wipers heaved mightily to displace.
David Foster Wallace
#21. Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left.
Harold Bloom
#22. Lenore, it's simply that I love you. You know that. Every fiber of your being is loved by every fiber of my being. The thought of things about you, concerning you, troubling you, that I don't know about, makes blood run from my eyes, on the inside.
David Foster Wallace
#23. 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.
David Lipsky
#24. If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.
Guy Finley
#25. Never make a personnel judgment the first time it comes up.
Alfred P. Sloan
#26. 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.
David Lipsky
#27. Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?
John Ensign
#28. Infinite Jest' is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it.
Harold Bloom
