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David Foster Wallace, né le 21 février 1962 à Ithaca, New York et mort le 12 septembre 2008 à Claremont, Californie, est un écrivain américain. Il est principalement reconnu pour son roman L'Infinie Comédie . Il a également été professeur au Pomona College à Claremont en Californie, de 2002 à 2008.

Son roman Infinite Jest , traduit en français en 2015 sous le titre L'Infinie Comédie, est considéré par certains comme un chef-d'œuvre de la littérature de langue anglaise et par d'autres comme un OVNI qui pourra rebuter des lecteurs avertis. En plus de ce roman, seuls sont traduits en France Brefs entretiens avec des hommes hideux, La fonction du balai, La Fille aux cheveux étranges, C'est de l'eau et Un truc soi-disant super auquel on ne me reprendra pas aux éditions Au diable vauvert, ainsi que Tout et plus encore aux éditions Ollendorff & Desseins. En 2011, son roman inachevé The Pale King parait pour la première fois aux États-Unis. La succession de Foster Wallace a confié le mandat d'éditer le texte à un ami de l'écrivain, Michael Pietsch.

✵ 21. février 1962 – 12. septembre 2008  •  Autres noms دايفيد والاس
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David Foster Wallace: 185 citations0 J'aime

David Foster Wallace: Citations en anglais

“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 livre Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“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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Source: 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 livre Infinite Jest

Source: 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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“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 livre The Pale King

Source: 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 livre Girl with Curious Hair

Source: 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 livre The Broom of the System

Source: 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 livre Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“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 livre Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Source: 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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Source: 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 livre Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

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

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David Foster Wallace livre Infinite Jest

Source: 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 livre Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Source: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“This is water.”

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

“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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Source: 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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Source: 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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“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 livre Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest (1996)
Contexte: 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.

“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 livre Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

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