Default Setting Quotes by David Foster Wallace

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• Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default… — Steve Carell
• The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and… — David Foster
• This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from… — David Foster
• Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And… — Glen Hansard
• The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams… — David Foster Wallace
• If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important-if you want to operate on… — David Foster Wallace
• This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free… — David Foster Wallace
• Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think… — Katha Pollitt
• I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box of Twinkies,… — Sarah Dessen
• I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
• Pessimism is my default setting. — Miranda Hart
• You know, men would much rather run away than talk about stuff, and my default setting has always been, 'If you have… — Stephen Moyer

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