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Funny Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside.
- There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.
- Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier").
- Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?
- I am not what you see and hear. -Hal
- Mediocrity is contextual.
- Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to.
- every failure is also a victory.
- It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility.
- Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.
- There are secrets within secrets, though--always.
- That what appears to be egoism so often isn't.
- She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.
- You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.
- Good literature makes your head throb heartlike
- We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.
- When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.
- How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
- ... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
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- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
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- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten. — J. J. Abrams
- I also have this incredible love for women. — Kevyn Aucoin