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Almost Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.
- Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest…
- Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.
- Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it…
- Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important…
- Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get…
- The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with…
- The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.
- Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.
- It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else…
More Almost Quotes
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears. — Dave Attell
- Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will… — Chinua Achebe
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. — John James Audubon
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen
- Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost… — Paul Auster