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

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

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  1. I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental. – David Foster Wallace
  2. 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
  3. I don’t think irony’s meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt assadness. – David Foster Wallace
  4. The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion. – David Foster Wallace
  5. Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian. – David Foster Wallace
  6. If contemporary literary fiction doesn’t read a bit like science fiction then it’s probably not all that contemporary, is it – Warren Ellis
  7. The main thing is to keep THE MAIN THING the main thing – stefan calin
  8. Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event? – Haruki Murakami
  9. Life is too short to major the MINOR and MINOR the major. Make the main thing the main thing and the world will make you the MAIN man – Sesan Kareem
  10. Brennan’s inner jaguar roared to life then with the need to protect this woman- protect my mate, must protect my mate it snarled. – Zoe Chant
  11. There’s been time this whole time. You can’t kill time with your heart. Everything takes time. – David Foster Wallace
  12. When he smoked marijuana he tended to masterbate a great deal. – David Foster Wallace
  13. For reasons that are not well understood, war’s codes are safer for most of us than love’s. – David Foster Wallace
  14. There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote. – David Foster Wallace
  15. You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain. – David Foster Wallace
  16. Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies. – David Foster Wallace
  17. a manual for how to build a mentally ill child – David Foster Wallace
  18. Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. – David Foster Wallace
  19. If an art form is marginalized it’s because it’s not speaking to people. – David Foster Wallace
  20. It’s not what you lift, it’s where you carry it. – David Foster Wallace
  21. How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words. – David Foster Wallace
  22. …having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear. – David Foster Wallace
  23. It’s weird to feel like you miss someone you’re not even sure you know. – David Foster Wallace
  24. The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die. – David Foster Wallace
  25. She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red. – David Foster Wallace
  26. The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light. – David Foster Wallace
  27. The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits. – David Foster Wallace
  28. …most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking. – David Foster Wallace
  29. People hate people, not freedom. – David Foster Wallace
  30. You get to decide what to worship. – David Foster Wallace
  31. The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster Wallace. – Deyth Banger
  32. Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being ????ed up, parents to blame it on. – David Foster Wallace
  33. I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as-”what I knew was that I worried a lot – David Foster Wallace
  34. She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it. – David Foster Wallace
  35. She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it. – David Foster Wallace
  36. …the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about. – David Foster Wallace
  37. It’s no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called ‘termination,’ as in ontological erasure. – David Foster Wallace
  38. You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage. – David Foster Wallace
  39. A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. – David Foster Wallace
  40. And it never even occurs to them their certainty that they are different is what makes them the same. – David Foster Wallace

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