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Certain Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love' is one of…
- You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a…
- Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of…
- 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…
- Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's…
- ....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a…
- My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still there. . .…
- Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass.…
- My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain…
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
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- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell