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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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As days lengthen into weeks and months and even years of adversity, the hurt grows deeper. The Church cannot hope to save…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind…
— Pat Summitt
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A complacent player is a lazy player, and a lazy player is a loser.
— Darryl Sutter
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A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.
— Harold Laski
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I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
— Barbara Hershey
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
— Abraham Flexner
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The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed…
— Jonathan Ive
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Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as…
— Blake Griffin
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Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask…
— Cynthia Nixon
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Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media,…
— Mark Twain
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I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help…
— Paul Newman
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If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.
— Shelley Morrison
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