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Good 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…
- I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the…
- Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.
- What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they…
- In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and…
- There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.
- The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to…
- When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone,…
- Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like…
- If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they…
- This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has…
- Good literature makes your head throb heartlike
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle