David Foster Wallace citations

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“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”

“What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.”

“You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.”

“And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void. And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. And We said: 'Look at that fucker Dance.”

“The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think theyare crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.”

“To be, in a word, unborable…. It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish”

“I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.”

“I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I…”

“I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.”

“sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.”

“… That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.”

“Every love story is a ghost story.”

“The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.”

“Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui—these are the true hero’s enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.”

“Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.”

“Mediocrity is contextual.”

“I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.”

“I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear”

“There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free”

“The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.”

“Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.”

“Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?”

“The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.”

“… most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.”

“God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about.”

“Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.”

“I don't think writers are anythan other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their.”

“Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.”

“… morning is the soul's night.”