David Foster Wallace: Frasi in inglese

David Foster Wallace era scrittore e saggista statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.”

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David Foster Wallace libro La scopa del sistema

Origine: The Broom of the System

“I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers…”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest

“The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Brevi interviste con uomini schifosi

Origine: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.”

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David Foster Wallace

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

“That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people… That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest

“She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest

“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.”

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David Foster Wallace

“She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Brevi interviste con uomini schifosi

Origine: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“This is water.”

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David Foster Wallace

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

“Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.”

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David Foster Wallace

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

“The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at theduring the first eight pages.”

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David Foster Wallace

“And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.”

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David Foster Wallace

Origine: Girl With Curious Hair

“Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.”

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“the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest (1996)
Contesto: These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light—the soul’s certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.

“she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.”

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David Foster Wallace libro Infinite Jest

Origine: Infinite Jest