“I'm not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.”
Quote by David Foster Wallace
Author
David Foster Wallace
American novelist known for his unique literary style and profound insights into modern life. His works include 'Infinite Jest' and 'The Broom of the System'. more
You May Also Like
“The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.”
Source: Girl With Curious Hair
“The point of books was to combat loneliness”
Source: Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
“Te occidere possunt sed te edere possunt nefas est.”
Source: Infinite Jest
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Source: The Broom of the System
“Saying them, out loud, before God, organized and eased his thoughts about them.”
Source: The Strange Land
“Infinite Jest’ is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it.”
“He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”
“I think, today’s irony ends up saying: "How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.”
“That's when he realized, Academia was rather dark here in L'adademie.”
Source: L'Académie