David Foster Wallace
Born
in Ithaca, New York, The United States
February 21, 1962
Died
September 12, 2008
Website
Genre
Influences
Infinite Jest
105 editions
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published
1996
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
48 editions
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published
2005
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
84 editions
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published
1996
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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
67 editions
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published
2009
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
76 editions
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published
1999
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The Broom of the System
66 editions
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published
1987
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The Pale King
70 editions
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published
2011
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Oblivion: Stories
51 editions
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published
2004
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Girl with Curious Hair
68 editions
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published
1988
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Both Flesh and Not: Essays
30 editions
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published
2012
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“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
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“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
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