I'm a typical American, half of me is dying to give myself away and the other half is continually rebelling.

David Foster Wallace

Stichwörter: interviews details david-foster-wallace david-streitfeld



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Irony tyrannizes us. All US irony is based on an implicit 'I don't really mean what I'm saying.

David Foster Wallace

Stichwörter: interviews david-foster-wallace boston-globe matthew-gilbert



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If I’m hanging out with you, I can’t even tell whether I like you or not because I’m too worried about whether you like me.

David Foster Wallace

Stichwörter: dfw



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Empecé a desesperarme. Empecé a sentir que me quedaría colgado de esa terapia, que nunca hallaría la respuesta y que el asunto no tendría fin. Que tendría esos interfaces kafkianos con este hombre día tras día, semana tras semana. Ya era mayo.

David Foster Wallace


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Ten un padre cuyo propio padre perdió lo que estaba ahí. Ten un padre que cumplió su propia promesa y luego encontró una cosa tras otra y superó las expectativas de su propia promesa y no pareció estar mucho más feliz ni más seguro que su propio padre fracasado, dejándote en una especie de estado salvaje y de encrucijada de flujos con respecto al talento.

David Foster Wallace


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If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, 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

Stichwörter: politics voting



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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though--and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

David Foster Wallace

Stichwörter: art success writing artist irony persona exhibition



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American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on.

David Foster Wallace

Stichwörter: life americans averages typical-people



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One of the few things I still miss from my Midwest childhood was this weird, deluded but unshakable conviction that everything around me existed all and only For Me. Am I the only one who had this queer deep sense as a kid? -- that everything exterior to me existed only insofar as it affected me somehow? -- that all things were somehow, via some occult adult activity, specially arranged for my benefit?

David Foster Wallace

Stichwörter: children self childhood midwest



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What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle.

David Foster Wallace

Stichwörter: knowledge racing auto-racing



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