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Course Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
- Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham…
- But of course there are all kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the…
- Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal…
- Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is…
- But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote…
- the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs…
- We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I…
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