Famous David Foster Wallace Quotes

  • Why do ???????utes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It’s like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out. – David Foster Wallace

    Why do ???????utes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It’s like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.– David Foster Wallace

  • Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian. – David Foster Wallace

    Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.– David Foster Wallace

  • The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion. – David Foster Wallace

    The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion.– David Foster Wallace

  • I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental. – David Foster Wallace

    I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.– David Foster Wallace

  • I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.– David Foster Wallace

  • And it never even occurs to them their certainty that they are different is what makes them the same. – David Foster Wallace

    And it never even occurs to them their certainty that they are different is what makes them the same.– David Foster Wallace

  • A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. – David Foster Wallace

    A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.– David Foster Wallace

  • You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage. – David Foster Wallace

    You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage.– David Foster Wallace

  • His parents’ pregnancies must have been all-out chromosomatic war – David Foster Wallace

    His parents’ pregnancies must have been all-out chromosomatic war– David Foster Wallace

  • Commercial comedy’s often set up to feature an ironist makingdevastating sport of someone who’s naive or sentimental or pretentious orpompous. – David Foster Wallace

    Commercial comedy’s often set up to feature an ironist makingdevastating sport of someone who’s naive or sentimental or pretentious orpompous.– David Foster Wallace