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Away Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all…
- The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my head…
- It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass…
- I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit’sOKit’sOKit’sOK, over and over. From very far away.
- Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes…
- ...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day,…
- He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and…
- American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do…
- That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even…
- It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on…
- You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody,…
- How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away. Nets and…
- Boo, I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen…
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius