David Foster Wallace Quotes


It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their entire lives to it. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe.


Citations

Wallace, David Foster. The Pale King. Little, Brown and Company, 2011.

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David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
  • Born: February 21, 1962
  • Died: September 12, 2008
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, short stories and essays, and a university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine cited as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. His posthumous novel, The Pale King (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012.