If you worship money and things — if they are where you tap real meaning in life — then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already — it’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power — you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart — you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.
David Foster WallaceWhen they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.
The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.
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I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.
David Foster Wallace...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.
David Foster WallaceFootnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos.
David Foster WallaceAs each person's sandal hits the pier, a sociolinguistic transformation from cruiser to tourist is effected.
David Foster WallaceOrtho Stice played with a kind of rigid, liquid grace, like a panther in a back-brace.
David Foster Wallace...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.
David Foster WallaceMediocrity is contextual.
David Foster Wallace....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.
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