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Girl with Curious Hair QUOTES

Girl with Curious Hair QUOTES

21 " Poetry, you were talking about,” Julie smiles, touching Faye’s cheek.
Faye lights a cigarette in the wind. “I’ve just never liked it. It beats around bushes. Even when I like it it’s nothing more than a really oblique way of saying the obvious, it seems like.”
Julie grins. Her front teeth have a gap. “Olé,” she says. “But consider how very, very few of us have the equipment to deal with the obvious. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

22 " She regarded the things that were important to me as her enemy, not realizing that they were, in fact, the “me” she seemed so jealously to covet. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

23 " She is silk in a bed of mail-order satin. Complete and seamless, an egg of sexual muscle. My motions atop her are dislocated, frantic, my lone interstice a trans-cultural spice of encouragement I smell with my spine. As, inside it, I go, I cry out to a god whose absence I have never felt to keenly. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

24 " It would take an architect who could hate enough to feel enough to love enough to perpetrate the kind of special cruelty only real lovers can inflict. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

25 " It's no coincidence it's the gurus on mountains who're wise. You get to the top: you're already theirs. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

26 " But from special it’s not very far to Alone. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

27 " And here's a cliché' that's earned its status as a cliché': whether you're free or locked up depends, all and only, on what you want. What you have matters about as much as the color of your sky. Or your bars. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

28 " Aloft," intoned the damaged man. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

29 " Julie le ha dicho a Faye que cree que los amantes pasan por tres fases distintas cuando empiezan a conocerse bien. Primero intercambian anécdotas y gustos. Después se cuentan las cosas en que creen. Y luego cada uno examina la relación entre lo que el otro dice que cree y lo que hace en realidad. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

30 " That you just naturally want what we, your fathers, work night and day to make sure you want? Grow up, for Christ’s sake. Join the world. We produce what makes you want to need to consume. Advertising. Laxatives. HMO’s. Baking soda. Insurance. Your fears are built—and your wishes, on that foundation. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

31 " I begin to feel as though my thoughts and voice here are in some way the creative products of something outside me, not in my control, and yet that this shaping, determining influence outside me is still me. I feel a division which the outside voice posits as the labor pains of a nascent emotional conscience. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

32 " Help," the working Account Representative called, feeling the stir of a tinily remembered humid wind and pausing, again, to look behind him, past the Brougham's black hood and the carelessly dropped safety helmet beside the white cycle, at the Ramp that spiraled up and out of sight toward a street, empty and bright, before the Building, empty and bright, dispossessed, autonomous and autonomic. Bent to what two lives required, below everything, he called for help again and again. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

33 " But and so things are slow, and like you they have this irritating suspicion that any satisfaction is still way off, and it's frustrating; but like basically decent kids they suck it up, bite the foil, because what's going on is just plain real; and no matter what we want, the real world is pretty slow, at present, for kids our age. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

34 " « la poesia, stavi dicendo della poesia ». Julie sorride, toccando la guancia di Faye.
Faye si accende una sigaretta nel vento. « È solo che non mi è mai piaciuta. È un modo di girare intorno alle cose. Anche quando mi piace, non è altro che una maniera molto obliqua di dire l'ovvio, almeno così mi pare ».
Julie sorride. Ha una fessura fra gli incisivi. «Olè», dice. « Ma considera che pochi, pochissimi di noi sono in grado di affrontare l'ovvio». "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

35 " Basically what you're doing when you're writing fiction is telling a lie, he tells those of us in the seminar; and the psychology of reading dictates that we're willing to buy only what coheres, on some gut level, with what we already believe. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

36 " With words and tears she has amputated something form me. I gave her the intimate importance of me, and her bus pulled away, leaving something key of mine inside her like the weapon of a bee. All I want to do now is drive very away, to bleed. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

37 " a president views, interviews, and reviews everything he presides over, if he’s doing his job in the correct manner. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

38 " The Account Representative bent back to the involved removal of his securely clamped helmet. He was preparing to feel that male and special feeling associated with the conversational imperative faced by any two men with some professional connection who meet in nighttime across an otherwise empty and silent but fragilely silent underground space far below the tall and vaguely pulsing site of a long and weary day for both: the obligation of conversation without the conversational prerequisites of intimacy or interests or concerns to share. They shared pain, though of course neither knew. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

39 " It is at once too noisy and too quiet to do any real work, and I have no ideas that do not seem to me shallow and overwrought. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair

40 " It occurs to me that neither my aunt nor my uncle has once asked what happened to the pretty little thing that came visiting with us last time we were up, and I wonder what my mother has said to my aunt. I begin to be anxious about something I can neither locate nor define. "

― David Foster Wallace , Girl with Curious Hair