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Facts about David Foster Wallace SummaryDavid Foster Wallace was a famous Writer from USA, who lived between February 21, 1962 and December 12, 2008.Zodiac etc.He/she is born under the zodiac pisces, who is known for Fluctuation, Depth, Imagination, Reactive, Indecisive. Our collection contains 26 quotes who is written / told by David.Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: Øystein Stray Spetalen, Didier Drogba, Billy Zane, Rachel Corrie, Amy Lee, John C. Reilly, Slash, Amanda Peet, Shannon Hoon, Kevin Mitnick, Chris Brown, Matt Drudge, Vanessa Hudgens, Jennifer Lopez, Jodie Foster, Vivica Fox, Lara Logan, Lesley Boone, Steve McManaman, Willie Green Famous quotes by David Foster Wallace (26)   "We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"
"Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride"
"One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism"
"What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it"
"The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?"
"It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive"
"Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se"
"Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes"
"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going"
"We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story"
"TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison"
"This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it"
"It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one"
"I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art"
"To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this"
"It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art"
"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants"
"The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates"
"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader"
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