David Foster Wallace: Frasi in inglese

David Foster Wallace era scrittore e saggista statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest

“… That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest

“Every love story is a ghost story.”

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David Foster Wallace libro The Pale King

Origine: The Pale King (2011)

“Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui—these are the true hero’s enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.”

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David Foster Wallace libro The Pale King

Origine: The Pale King (2011)

“Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest

“Mediocrity is contextual.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest

“I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.”

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“There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest (1996)

“Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.”

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David Foster Wallace

Origine: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

“Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest

“… most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest

“God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest

“Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.”

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David Foster Wallace

Origine: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

“I don't think writers are anythan other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their.”

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David Foster Wallace

“… morning is the soul's night.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest