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David Foster Wallace Berühmte Zitate

„Es wird dich sehr viel weniger interessieren, was andere über dich denken, wenn du erst einmal realisierst, wie selten sie es tun.“

David Foster Wallace

„Die wirklich wichtige Freiheit erfordert Aufmerksamkeit, und Offenheit und Disziplin und Mühe und die Empathie, andere Menschen wirklich ernst zu nehmen und Opfer für sie zu bringen, wieder und wieder, auf unendlich verschiedene Weisen, völlig unsexy, Tag für Tag.“

David Foster Wallace buch Das hier ist Wasser

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

„Die Wahrheit wird dich frei machen. Aber nicht, bis es mit dir fertig ist.“

David Foster Wallace

„Jeder ist in seinem geheimen, unausgesprochenen Glauben identisch, so dass er sich von allen anderen unterscheidet.“

David Foster Wallace

„Mario, was bekommst du, wenn du einen Schlaflosen, einen Agnostiker und einen Legastheniker kreuzt? "

"Ich gebe auf."

"Man bekommt jemanden, der die ganze Nacht wach bleibt und sich mental mit der Frage foltert, ob es einen Hund gibt oder nicht."“

David Foster Wallace

„Alles Unerträgliche ist im Kopf, weil der Kopf nicht in der Gegenwart verweilt, sondern die Mauern hochklettert, Erkundigungen einzieht und mit unerträglichen Nachrichten zurückkommt, die man dann irgendwie glaubt.“

David Foster Wallace buch Unendlicher Spaß

Unendlicher Spaß, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2009, ISBN 978-3462-04112-5, Seite 1237; Übersetzer: Ulrich Blumenbach

David Foster Wallace Zitate und Sprüche

„Die Integrität meines Schlafs ist für alle Zeit kompromittiert, Sir.“

David Foster Wallace

„Die wirklich wichtige Art der Freiheit beinhaltet Aufmerksamkeit und Bewusstsein, Disziplin und Anstrengung, und die Fähigkeit, sich wirklich um andere Menschen zu sorgen, für Sie Opfer zu bringen, jeden Tag auf neue auf unzählige, kleine, unsittliche Arten und Weisen.“

David Foster Wallace

„Ich tue so Dinge wie in ein Taxi zu steigen und zu sagen: "Zur Bücherei, und geben Sie gas!"“

David Foster Wallace

„Dass es perverserweise oft mehr Spaß macht, etwas zu wollen, als es zu haben.“

David Foster Wallace buch Unendlicher Spaß

Unendlicher Spaß, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2009, ISBN 978-3462-04112-5, Seite 295; Übersetzer: Ulrich Blumenbach
Original engl.: "That, perversely, it is often more fun to want something than to have it."

David Foster Wallace: Zitate auf Englisch

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

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David Foster Wallace

Variante: 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 buch Unendlicher Spaß

Quelle: Infinite Jest

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

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David Foster Wallace

Quelle: 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

Quelle: 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 buch Unendlicher Spaß

Quelle: 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

“… Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.”

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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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“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 buch The Pale King

Quelle: 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 buch Girl with Curious Hair

Quelle: 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 buch The Broom of the System

Quelle: 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 buch Unendlicher Spaß

Quelle: Infinite Jest

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

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David Foster Wallace buch The Pale King

Quelle: 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 buch Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Quelle: 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

Quelle: 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 buch Unendlicher Spaß

Quelle: Infinite Jest

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

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David Foster Wallace buch Unendlicher Spaß

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

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David Foster Wallace buch Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Quelle: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“There are very few innocent sentences in writing.”

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David Foster Wallace

“This is water.”

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David Foster Wallace

Quelle: 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 buch Unendlicher Spaß

Quelle: 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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Quelle: 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

Quelle: 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 buch The Pale King

Quelle: 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 buch Unendlicher Spaß

Quelle: Infinite Jest (1996)
Kontext: 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 buch The Pale King

Quelle: 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 buch Unendlicher Spaß

Quelle: Infinite Jest