Author: David Foster Wallace

Cites

• Frank Bidart (1)
  • IN: The Pale King (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.
    FROM: Borges and I, (1997), Poem, US

Cited by

• Zadie Smith (2)
  • IN: Changing My Mind: Occassional Essays (2009) Fiction, Essays, British
    EPIGRAPH: You get to decide what to worship.
    FROM: Commencement address to Kenyon College’s graduating class of 2005, (2005), Speech, US
  • IN: Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You get to decide what to worship
    FROM: "This is Water", (2005), Speech, US
• Sam Shepard (1)
  • IN: The One Inside (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Why does no one take you aside and tell you what is coming?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Kate Racculia (2)
  • IN: Rhapsody, Bellweather (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every love story is a ghost story.
    FROM: The Pale King, (2011), Novel, US
  • IN: Bellweather Rhapsody (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every love story is a ghost story.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Emily Gould (1)
  • IN: Friendship (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I knew , sitting there, that I might be a real nihilist, that it wasn’t always just a hip pose. That I drifted and quit because nothiing meant anything, no one, choice, was really better. That I was, in a way, too free, or tha t this kind of freedom wasnt actually real - I was free to choose 'whatever'because it didnt really matter. But that this, too, was because of something I chose - I had somehow chosen to have nothing matter... The point was that through making this choice, I didnt matter - even just to myself - I would have to be less free, by deciding to choose in some kind of definite way. Even if it was nothing more than an act of will.
    FROM: The Pale King, (2011), Novel, US
• Alex Christofi (1)
  • IN: Glass (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Someone taught that temples are for fantatics only and took away the temples and promised there was no need for temples. And now there is no shelter. And no map for finding the shelter of a temple. And you all stumble about in the dark, this confusion of permissions. The without-end pursuit of a happiness of which someone let you forget the old things which made happiness possible. How is it you say: "Anything is going'?
    FROM: Infinite Jest, (1996), Novel, US
• Christopher Bollen (1)
  • IN: Lightning People (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
    FROM: Infinite Jest, (1996), Novel, US
• David Baddiel (1)
  • IN: The Death of Eli Gold (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...he persists in the bizarre adolescent idea that having sex with whomever you want whenever you want is the cure for ontological despair
    FROM: reviewing John Updike's Towards the End of Time, New Yorker Observer, (1997), Journal, US
• Gregg Hurwitz (1)
  • IN: The Nowhere Man (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
    FROM: Infinite Jest, (1996), Novel, US