David Foster Wallace: Frasi in inglese

David Foster Wallace era scrittore e saggista statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.”

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David Foster Wallace

Origine: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest

“Capital T-truth is about life before death.”

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David Foster Wallace

Origine: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“Words and a book and a belief that the world is words…”

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David Foster Wallace libro La scopa del sistema

Origine: The Broom of the System

“All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression.”

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David Foster Wallace

“I wish you way more than luck.”

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David Foster Wallace

Origine: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest

“American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest

“Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.”

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David Foster Wallace

Variante: Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

“Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith…. Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest

“Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto.”

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David Foster Wallace

Origine: Girl With Curious Hair

“Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke.
This can be tricky.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest

“I am concentrating docilely on the question why U. S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.”

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David Foster Wallace

“It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me?”

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David Foster Wallace

“To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.”

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David Foster Wallace libro The Pale King

Origine: The Pale King

“Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets,. Hear it? It's a love song.

For whom?

You are loved.”

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David Foster Wallace libro La ragazza con i capelli strani

Origine: Girl with Curious Hair