David Foster Wallace Quotes

American fiction writer and essayist

David Foster Wallace (21 February 1962 – 12 September 2008) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His works include The Broom of the System (novel), Infinite Jest (novel), The Girl With Curious Hair (short story collection), Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (short story collection), A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (essay collection), and the posthumously-published The Pale King (novel) and Both Flesh and Not (essay collection).

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'You know what your problem is, Hallie?' 'I have just one problem?'

Betraying her class and origin with the heartbreaking openness Joelle's always viewed as either terribly stupid or terribly brave

After a few weeks of this she'd spend a whole day weeping, beating at herself as if on fire.

Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.