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David Foster Wallace has 310 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
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Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
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You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's…
— Robert H. Jackson
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Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
— Samuel Johnson
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... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
— William Cowper
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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
— Marie de France
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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
— Samuel Richardson
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
— Charles Lamb
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Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were…
— John Flavel
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I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But…
— Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
— Robert Lloyd
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