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Enough Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.
- 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…
- It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
- If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you…
- Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough…
- 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…
- A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.
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- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
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