David Foster Wallace quotes.
David Foster Wallace was a renowned American writer and a college professor of English and creative writing. He was born on February 21,1962. Wallace was well known for his book Infinite Jest which was published in 1996. Time magazine mentioned “Infinite Jest” among the top 100 English books from 1923 to 2005. Please read on for David Foster Wallace quotes.
His posthumous book, The Pale King (2011), was a finalist for its Pulitzer Prize for Fiction at 2012.
Name | David Foster Wallace |
Born | February 21, 1962,Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
Occupation | Writer University Professor |
Died | September 12, 2008 (aged 46), Claremont, California, U.S. |
Notable works | Infinite Jest (1996) |
David foster Wallace love quotes
David Foster Wallace quotes.
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“There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.”

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“This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.“
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“What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love?
If the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?”

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“I love the way you love, but I hate the way I am supposed to love you back.“
David Foster Wallace quotes.
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“Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lovers mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.“
David foster Wallace infinite jest quotes
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“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
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“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
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“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”

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“[…] almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of ‘psst’ that you usually can’t even hear because you’re in such a rush to or from something important you’ve tried to engineer. ”