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Idea Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- 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…
- We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the…
- It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass…
- 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…
- He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and…
- This is how I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?-- this sort of direct question…
- My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain…
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- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden