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David Foster Wallace byl americký spisovatel, autor románů, povídek a esejů, profesor angličtiny a tvůrčího psaní. Wallace se proslavil zejména románem z roku 1996 Infinite Jest . David Ulin, literární redaktor Los Angeles Times, napsal o Wallaceovi, že byl „jedním z nejvlivnějších a průkopnických spisovatelů za posledních 20 let“. Wallaceův poslední a nedokončený román The Pale King vyšel v roce 2011 a následující rok se zařadil mezi finalisty Pulitzerovy ceny za beletrii. V září roku 2012 vyšla Wallaceova biografie. V posledních deseti letech bylo také publikováno k jeho dílu množství kritické literatury. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. únor 1962 – 12. září 2008  •  Další jména دايفيد والاس
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David Foster Wallace: 191 citátů2 lajky

David Foster Wallace nejznámější citáty

„Pravé hrdinství je několik minut, hodin, týdnů, rok po roce tichého, precizního, uvážlivého cvičení poctivosti a péče - s nikým, kdo by ho viděl nebo povzbuzoval. Tohle je svět.“

David Foster Wallace

„Každý je ve své tajné nevyslovené víře totožný, že se hluboko liší od ostatních.“

David Foster Wallace

„… logická platnost není zárukou pravdy.“

David Foster Wallace

„Budete méně znepokojeni tím, co si o vás ostatní lidé myslí, jakmile si uvědomíte, jak vzácně to dělají.“

David Foster Wallace

„Pravda tě osvobodí. Ale ne, dokud s tebou neskončí.“

David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace: Citáty anglicky

“And I submit that this is what the real, no-shit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about. How to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone, day in and day out.”

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David Foster Wallace

Kenyon College Commencement Speech.
Essays

“Since we all breathe, all the time, it is amazing what happens when someone else directs you how and when to breathe. And how vividly someone with no imagination whatsoever can see what he’s told is right there, complete with banister and rubber runners, curving down and rightward into a darkness that recedes before you.”

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David Foster Wallace kniha The Pale King

The Pale King (2011)

“Past the flannel plains and blacktop graphs and skylines of canted rust, and past the tobacco-brown river overhung with weeping trees and coins of sunlight through them on the water downriver, to the place beyond the windbreak, where untilled fields simmer shrilly in the A. M. heat: shattercane, lamb’s-quarter, cutgrass, sawbrier, nutgrass, jimsonweed, wild mint, dandelion, foxtail, muscadine, spinecabbage, goldenrod, creeping charlie, butter-print, nightshade, ragweed, wild oat, vetch, butcher grass, invaginate volunteer beans, all heads gently nodding in a morning breeze like a mother’s soft hand on your cheek. An arrow of starlings fired from the windbreak’s thatch. The glitter of dew that stays where it is and steams all day. A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys. All nodding. Electric sounds of insects at their business. Ale-colored sunshine and pale sky and whorls of cirrus so high they cast no shadow. Insects all business all the time. Quartz and chert and schist and chondrite iron scabs in granite. Very old land. Look around you. The horizon trembling, shapeless. We are all of us brothers.”

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David Foster Wallace kniha The Pale King

The Pale King (2011)

“The idea was to have the accident and whatever explosion and fire was involved occur someplace isolated enough that no one else would see it, so that there would be as little an aspect of performance to the thing as I could manage and no temptation to spend my last few seconds trying to imagine what impressions the sight and sound of the impact might make on someone watching. I was partly concerned that it might be spectacular and dramatic and might look as if the driver was trying to go out in as dramatic a way as possible. This is the sort of shit we waste our lives thinking about.”

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David Foster Wallace

"Good Old Neon", Oblivion: Stories
Short stories

“These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light—the soul’s certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.”

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David Foster Wallace kniha Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest (1996)