David > David's Quotes

“The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

“The music’s still going, going absolutely nowhere, like Philip Glass on Quaaludes.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Francophones are never impressed that anyone else can speak French.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Fake emotions were her expertise, but real ones seemed strangely complicated.”
― T.S. Falk, The Ancestor Trap

“Once malice is embraced as a virtue, it is impossible to contain.”
― Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America

“The science fiction author has formulated what he called Clarke’s Law, which says, “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
― Terry Hansen, The Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up