David Foster Wallace Quote
The next suitable person you’re in light conversation with, you stop suddenly in the middle of the conversation and look at the person closely and say, What’s wrong? You say it in a concerned way. He’ll say, What do you mean? You say, Something’s wrong. I can tell. What is it? And he’ll look stunned and say, How did you know? He doesn’t realize something’s always wrong, with everybody. Often more than one thing. He doesn’t know everybody’s always going around all the time with something wrong and believing they’re exerting great willpower and control to keep other people, for whom they think nothing’s ever wrong, from seeing it.
David Foster Wallace
The next suitable person you’re in light conversation with, you stop suddenly in the middle of the conversation and look at the person closely and say, What’s wrong? You say it in a concerned way. He’ll say, What do you mean? You say, Something’s wrong. I can tell. What is it? And he’ll look stunned and say, How did you know? He doesn’t realize something’s always wrong, with everybody. Often more than one thing. He doesn’t know everybody’s always going around all the time with something wrong and believing they’re exerting great willpower and control to keep other people, for whom they think nothing’s ever wrong, from seeing it.
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About David Foster Wallace
Wallace grew up in Illinois and attended Amherst College. He taught English at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College. After struggling with depression for many years, he died by suicide in 2008, at age 46.