Quotes by David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

Explore a curated collection of 12 quotes by David Foster Wallace, The Pale King. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless — David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
Fervent Christians are always remembering themselves as - and thus, by extension, judging everyone else outside their se — David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
In short, not only was it surprising to be greeted in person with such enthusiastic words, but it was doubly surprising — David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
What if the preacher or father’s saying ‘Someone here’s lost and hopeless’ was tantamount to those Sun-Times horoscopes — David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words. — David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
It may sound reactionary, I know. But we can all feel it. We've changed the way we think of ourselves as citizens. We do — David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
...it occurred that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the comin — David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the — David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The compl — David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
The mother at thirty with face commencing to display the faint seams of the plan for the second face life had in store f — David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a half hour after that — David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
Maybe it’s not metaphysics. Maybe it’s existential. I’m talking about the individual US citizen’s deep fear, the same ba — David Foster Wallace, The Pale King