Dfw Quotes

The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.

~ David Foster Wallace

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

~ David Foster Wallace

According to Wallace, the expectation that art amuses is a 'poisonous lesson for a would-be artist to grow up with,' since it places all of the power with the audience, sometimes breeding resentment on the part of the author. 'I can see it in myself and in other young writers,' he told McCaffery: 'this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.' Wallace expressed his 'hostility' by writing unwieldy sentences, refusing to fulfill readers' expectations, and 'bludgeoning the reader with data'--all strategies he used to wrestle back some of the power held by modern audiences.

~ Dorothy M. Kennedy

It's just much easier with dogs. You don't get laid, but you also don't get the feeling you're hurting their feelings all the time.

~ David Lipsky