Postmodernism

Postmodernism is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.

15 thinkers477 quotesTop field: Literature

"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."

David Foster Wallace· b. 1962View quote →

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🇺🇸David Foster Wallace

Literature

Postmodernism

1962–2008

"Betraying her class and origin with the heartbreaking openness Joelle's always viewed as either terribly stupid or terribly brave"

"Someone said that Capitalism will eat itself, and I think that’s like the meat industry, the meat industry itself will become dead meat and compassion will reign supreme."

"Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter."

"I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I’m a messenger."

"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past."

"We are all acquaintances now". It goes beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times."

"If we are unable to unify the past, present, and future of the sentence, then we are similarly unable to unify the past, present, and future of our own biographical experience or psychic life."

"a course laid between the seed and the snare"

"If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic."

"There are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better."

"Avant-garde art has become habitual, a dead letter with little spiritual consequence, however materially refined."

"Rationalizations for simplification are still current, however, though subtler than the early arguments."

"That is the truth. Not the hammer and sickle. Not the stars and stripes. Not the cross. Not the sun. Not gold. Not yin and yang. But the smile."

"I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis."

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"Betraying her class and origin with the heartbreaking openness Joelle's always viewed as either terribly stupid or terribly brave"

— David Foster Wallace, b. 1962View →

"They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier."

— David Foster Wallace, b. 1962View →

"Then Thursday Coyle had his left wrist tied to his right ankle and was still beating this new kid Stockhausen until Schtitt sent Tex Watson down to tell him to knock it off."

— David Foster Wallace, b. 1962View →

"There is something inescapably bovine about an American tourist in motion as part of a group. A certain greedy placidity about them. Us, rather. In port we automatically become Peregrinator americanusy Die Lumpenamerikaner. The Ugly Ones."

— David Foster Wallace, b. 1962View →

"The John Ziegler Show is the first local, nonsyndicated late-night program that KFI has aired in a long time. It's something of a gamble for everyone involved. Ten o'clock to one qualifies as late at night in southern California, where hardly anything reputable's open after nine."

— David Foster Wallace, b. 1962View →

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