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Abstract Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal…
- Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get…
- My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still there. . .…
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- To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. — Honore de Balzac
- I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. — Theodor Adorno
- None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno
- Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of… — Nicolas Cage
- Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to… — Nicolas Cage
- I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. — Eric Cantona
- Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp
- Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without… — Saul Alinsky
- 'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the… — Sam Abell
- Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes… — John Dewey
- It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice… — Giorgio Armani