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When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I'm not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, 'You have to play it like this,' or I tell the drummer, 'It's got to be like this.'


David Foster

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DAVID FOSTER WALLACE There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These thin...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little t...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE --and then you're in serious trouble, very serious trouble, and you know it, finally, deadly serious...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE [...] almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Maybe it's the fact the most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older pe...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Because we’ve been lied to and lied to, and it hurts to be lied to. It’s ultimately just about t...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed libra...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE ...you are excused from doing the work of constructing the fantasy. The ads do it for you. The ads, ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Nel tennis il vero avversario, la frontiera che include, è il giocatore stesso. C'è sempre e solo ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Trying to be anti-cool is just one exponent off trying to be cool -- it's the same beast.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE You want to know the story? I'd be happy to tell you. I think I have just enough caloric energy stor...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I am about art here, not simple reproduction.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I'm not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vu...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt had very nearly nothing left anymore of the delusion that he di...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE -when he thinks of the starry-eyed puerility and narcissism of these fantasies now, a rough decade l...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE When he smoked marijuana he tended to masterbate a great deal.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fac...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE You don’t have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE But most days, if you're aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of t...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The great myth is that the bad ones don't last long.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being aro...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what l...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE it turned out that there was something terribly stressful about visual telephone interfaces that had...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE He said he didn’t think Lenore should go to the G.O.D.
"Nobody ever finds anybody in a place ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really h...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom t...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It’s of some interest that the lively arts of the millenial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal em...
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