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Дэ́вид Фо́стер Уо́ллес — американский писатель, мыслитель-эссеист.

✵ 21. Февраль 1962 – 12. Сентябрь 2008  •  Другие имена دايفيد والاس
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Дэвид Фостер Уоллес цитаты

„Призраки говорят с нами все время – но мы воспринимаем их голоса, как наши собственные мысли.“

Дэвид Фостер Уоллес

Дэвид Фостер Уоллес: Цитаты на английском языке

“Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.”

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David Foster Wallace

Вариант: Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

“Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith…. Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.”

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David Foster Wallace книга Infinite Jest

Источник: Infinite Jest

“When a solipsist dies… everything goes with him.”

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David Foster Wallace

Источник: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

“Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto.”

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David Foster Wallace

Источник: Girl With Curious Hair

“Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke.
This can be tricky.”

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David Foster Wallace книга Infinite Jest

Источник: Infinite Jest

“I am concentrating docilely on the question why U. S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.”

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David Foster Wallace

“It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me?”

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David Foster Wallace

“To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.”

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David Foster Wallace книга The Pale King

Источник: The Pale King

“Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets,. Hear it? It's a love song.

For whom?

You are loved.”

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David Foster Wallace книга Girl with Curious Hair

Источник: Girl with Curious Hair

“The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.”

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David Foster Wallace книга The Broom of the System

Источник: The Broom of the System

“I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers…”

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David Foster Wallace книга Infinite Jest

Источник: Infinite Jest

“There are secrets within secrets, though--always.”

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David Foster Wallace книга The Pale King

Источник: The Pale King

“The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.”

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David Foster Wallace книга Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Источник: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.”

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David Foster Wallace

Источник: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people… That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.”

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David Foster Wallace книга Infinite Jest

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“She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.”

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David Foster Wallace книга Infinite Jest

Источник: Infinite Jest

“My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.”

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David Foster Wallace

“She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.”

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David Foster Wallace книга Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Источник: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“This is water.”

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David Foster Wallace

Источник: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“… loneliness is not a function of solitude.”

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David Foster Wallace книга Infinite Jest

Источник: Infinite Jest

“Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.”

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Источник: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at theduring the first eight pages.”

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“And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.”

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David Foster Wallace

Источник: Girl With Curious Hair

“Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.”

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“We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.”

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David Foster Wallace книга The Pale King

Источник: The Pale King

“the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.”

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David Foster Wallace книга Infinite Jest

Источник: Infinite Jest (1996)
Контексте: These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light—the soul’s certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.

“That what appears to be egoism so often isn't.”

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David Foster Wallace книга The Pale King

Источник: The Pale King

“she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.”

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David Foster Wallace книга Infinite Jest

Источник: Infinite Jest

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