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David Foster Wallace has 310 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
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Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
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You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.
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We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record.
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It almost made me long for the flying pig. --Percy
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Believe me, I know and I almost made the same mistake you did. Evil is seductive. It’s what makes the two of…
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The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.
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(The baby sneezed. Wulf jumped as fire shot out of its nostrils and almost singed his leg.) Excuse me. I almost made…
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Barrons’ lips twitched. I’d almost made him smile. Barrons smiles about as often as the sun comes out in Dublin, and it…
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Fasal liked to fight; Jiaan was good at planning. Together, Jiaan thought sourly, they almost made a whole officer. And if you…
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There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber,” she explained.…
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Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like…
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For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were…
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Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it just in time.
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