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Else Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see or…
- Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated…
- This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
- The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so…
- Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.
- We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody…
- There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing…
- The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.
- Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
- It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else…
- Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you…
- I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's…
More Else Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. — Erma Bombeck
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho