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Fall Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- 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…
- -the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at…
- That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people…
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- If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. — Lance Armstrong
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- The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine
- To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. — Charles Babbage
- I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head,… — Lauren Bacall
- Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. — Francis Bacon
- The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. — Francis Bacon