David Foster Wallace: Frasi in inglese (pagina 6)

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

David Foster Wallace libro Brevi interviste con uomini schifosi

Origine: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“This is water.”

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.”

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

“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.”

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.